Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:51:20 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>, support@fglrx-freebsd.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and ATI card query. Message-ID: <20070313125120.GA94557@maccullagh.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <200703132003.41326.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20070312184007.GA49875@kierun.org> <20070312235147.a35d7e88.stas@FreeBSD.org> <200703132003.41326.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:03:33PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 07:21, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:07 +0000 > > AFAIK, opensource Xorg ati drivers doesn't work with anything beyond > > x1800. flgrx is only linux binary, however, so you couldn't use it for > > FreeBSD. > > Actually.. http://www.fglrx-freebsd.com/index.php > > Unfortunately there is no amd64 version and I lack the clue to make one. I looked at this last week. I have an amd64 Dell machine with an X1300 card. I did manage to get the flgrx 8.23.7 Linux amd64 driver to load as a driver in the FreeBSD version of X - basically I downloaded the Linux version, extracted the archive, grabbed the fglrx_drv.so file and put it in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers and then told X to load it. It seemed to be working, but was too old to support a X1300 card. I suspect it would work OK with less recent cards. I then tried to get a newer version working, but the fglrx_drv.so from newer ATI releases are linked against a whole bunch of crud (libstdc++, libgcc_s, ....). I tried fudging the linker to make it load the FreeBSD versions of these, which got me a bit further, but the Linux versions of these libraries were too different for me to be able to get them to work. The drivers for xorg 6.8.0 looked a little more promising as they weren't linked against so many other libraries. However, I gave up before building a 6.8.0 server and used the vesa driver. David.
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