x1350, widerscreen and xorg 1.4

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Max Russell <thedossone at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>  I am running a recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 system with the default xorg:
>
>  X.Org X Server 1.4.0
>  Release Date: 5 September 2007
>  X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
>  Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386
>  Current Operating System: FreeBSD ironteeth.home 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD
>  7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008
>  root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
>  I have a Powercolor ati x-1350 card with a Video7 widescreen monitor capable of
>
>   Frequency at Resolution  640 x 480 @ 75 Hz, 800 x 600 @75 Hz, 1024 x
>  768 @ 75 Hz, 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz, 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz
>   Horizontal/Vertical Frequency  30 - 82 KHz / 56 - 76 Hz
>   Video Bandwidth  135 MHz
>
>  I find that if I try to use either the radeon or ati drivers, x will
>  not start at all. Even with the vesa driver, I find that I can't get
>  proper desktop resolution.
>
>  I'm presuming as there is a specific mailing list for this, I'm not
>  completely alone with these kinds of issues.
>
>  I've tried commenting out the bus id, inserting modelines etc to no
>  avail. Can anyone help please?

*BSDs need some fixes that are only available in ati git master at the moment:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=74eb981287d76836327830bd51272f605a07e0cc
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=766f464dfdfccadef23e4232f2bce5db22195513

Alex