On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD >> > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ? >> > >> >> Well, I'm using radeonhd right now on a >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public]$ uname -a >> FreeBSD periphrasis.mit.edu 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Wed May >> 14 00:27:26 EDT 2008 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PERIPHRASIS amd64 > > I'm not sure those are the drivers Theierry wants. The proprietary > driver was called fglrx, not "radeon" or "radeonhd". Those two drivers > have been in the X open source trees for quite a while now. I first > started using the radeon driver on amd64 in late 2006. The versions I > have checked out for FreeBSD are documented as > > Radeonhd has no 2d or 3d acceleration. > Radeon has both, but only works for older cards. > > That is also on 7-stable, but I haven't updated the sources in a > while.
fglrx is the only way that anyone's going to get true 3D OpenGL support, and the last time I checked that wasn't available except for ancient cards on FreeBSD. AMD was supposed to be helping ATI, but it appears that after the merger all that's happened is a website change and ATI's drivers have gotten worse... last time I tried x64 support with Linux I was sadly shocked by the poor programming that went into the driver and the difficulty I had trying to get it to work with X11. Then again things may have changed since that time too... My 2 cents, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
