Paul Goyette wrote: >After much assistance, I've finally got my new Gateway box running. Now >I need to get X windows up. > >The machine has an E1-2500 processor, and claims "Radeon HD 8240" >on-board graphics. However, booting a GENERIC kernel gives this dmesg: > >genfb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x9838 (rev.0x00) >genfb0: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, size 800x600, depth 32, stride 3328 >wsdisplay0 at genfb0 ...
[snip] >Any hint on how to proceed? Put some debug in xf86-video-vesa to find out why it doesn't work ? Are you running NetBSD/amd64 or NetBSD/i386 ? You could try hacking the PCI ID for the GPU into xf86-video-ati in xsrc but you will still just get a dumb framebuffer. Robert Swindells
