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post #1 of 8
12/24/03 at 6:33pm
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Hey guys i just got a 4760 from hypresonic-pc there zx7 last one of the 4760's they had anyway. I am trying to get an idea on what your all doing to get your 1400 x 900 rez. Im currently running freebsd and just started tweaking it up. Ill be posting a lot in the next couple weeks. I think we need to make a 4760 - 4780 guide for all the wide screeners.
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post #2 of 8
12/25/03 at 2:50am
Based on what I can tell so far, nobody is running any 4760/4780 nix systems at 1440x900. My 4780 works at other resolutions. I'll post a modeline when it's working at 1440x900.
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post #3 of 8
12/25/03 at 3:02am
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yea so far thats been my general concensus im wondering how and what we gotta do to get it to work. SO far im just not getting lucky with anything but 1024x768 but the fonts look stretched out.
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post #4 of 8
12/25/03 at 3:10am
Ok just tried out this modeline and it appears to work. Haven't tested it beyond an xterm though.

Modeline "1440x900" 96.0 1440 1448 1632 1780 900 903 906 914
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post #5 of 8
12/25/03 at 4:42am
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your da man it worked. I love freebsd.. Just no luck yet with the drivers for the ati 9000 yet
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post #6 of 8
12/25/03 at 4:49am
The drivers will work. If it works for me on openbsd, it will surely work on freebsd. First, grab the latest X source tree .. I used the dec 18 snapshot. Then apply this patch
http://jcs.org/patches/xfree86-power...adeon_fix.diff

Make sure you build the whole tree, not just the xserver, as the radeon driver is a module. Also use Joshua's powerbook XF86Config (from jcs.org) as a base for your own.

Good luck.
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post #7 of 8
12/25/03 at 5:32am
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ok working on this now no rest for the wicked any ideas on the wireless networking.. I would love to get this baby working. its a Hermes/Orinoco/Prism based chip connected via USB so i figure its going to take a bit of tweaking to get it running. Ok i really have to sleep... damn you computers. hehe

be back tomorrow hopefully with good news.
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post #8 of 8
12/28/03 at 2:09pm
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sweetness

Ok i have gotten the sound working using the process in the freebsd handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...und-setup.html
I was having troubles compiling the kernel so i used the module loader and it worked fine. I havent narrowed it down to the exact driver just yet im just happy to have it working. But when I do ill post back here and let you know.

happy *nix ing guys.
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