From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 23:35:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8D916A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7092543D2D for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:35:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from niyamas@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id w67so51784cwb for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:35:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qha0G4Q6E2atCLKLQj87sFZgf1VUd5L9y9vubWaRpFdIjWW/KqEBHHs/zrFI80iWwKubfhKhPGBORyAUg6C2x4yxFe2/51iBiiDGa+DqmtDNSesF1qfA/voPQ1ve5aG9A/2fQroqRx9cTp/BB7v3vp7rh/Wk9rF0hLokegfZ2ng= Received: by 10.11.117.43 with SMTP id p43mr345907cwc; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:35:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.11.119.47 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:35:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4f9c6b6d0411051535773d131f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:35:38 -0500 From: NiY To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ATI, OpenGl, and the like. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Niy@extacy.homeip.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 23:35:40 -0000 Greetings! I've been a FreeBSD user for a few years now, off and on. After my last harddrive dumped on me, I decided to stick with FreeBSD as my main OS. I work as an PC/Net technician/admin and know the console and server ends of FreeBSD rather well at this point. I've never been much into graphics and games, but a little while ago I stumbled, through happenstance, upon an ATI AIW Raden 9600 w/ 128 Megs ram. I sold my old graphics card for cigarrette and pizza money, so going back to it is no longer an option. My first thought was to get the dual head function working under X11. No go. I googled the hell out of it, tried all the stuff I could find, wouldn't work for me. Not a big deal, I'll pic up an old pci video card at some point and give it another shot. If anyone happens to have an XF86Config or Xorg.conf file with this setup running, however, please feel free to send it my way. In my travels around the web I found a lot of irate FreeBSD users with ATI graphics cards, specifically dealing with getting OpenGL to work. I am running X.org 6.8.1 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have dual P3 1.0Ghzs and 512 megs RAM. Should be more than enough to play a silly little game on. The game in question is Cube. It looks nice, figured it might help me kill some time between on call rotations. Problem is, the darn thing runs slow enough to pace mollasses in january. I get 10 fps average. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? How can I tell if OpenGL is running properly? Where can I find info on configuring OpenGL for my card? I've tried setting the FPS range in the game, doesn't help. Oh, and if anyone knows what the deal is with these graphics cards and FreeBSD (well, I guess X on FreeBSD more specifically) is.. status of drivers and what not, point me in the right direction. Nothing major, just a little frustrating. All in all, I love FreeBSD. If this card isn't going to work for me, can anyone recommend a dual head video card that runs decently with OpenGL and has a built in TV tuner? Preferably a tv tuner that will actually work? (still holding my breath for the Gatos team to catch up some day.) If you need any of my config information, lemme know. Sorry for the message length, wasn't quite sure how to trim it down.