Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:16:34 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>, support@fglrx-freebsd.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and ATI card query. Message-ID: <200703151116.35911.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070313125120.GA94557@maccullagh.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20070312184007.GA49875@kierun.org> <200703132003.41326.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070313125120.GA94557@maccullagh.maths.tcd.ie>
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--nextPart1463656.GflPBnmud6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 13 March 2007 23:21, David Malone wrote: > 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. I think this is what I saw. Such a PITA :( So much for the platform independent promise of the driver architecture. > 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. Heh, I wouldn't mind VESA except my LCD monitor's native resolution is=20 1680x1050 and I can't get X to do it. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1463656.GflPBnmud6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF+Jdr5ZPcIHs/zowRAn+fAJ0TbUThnN3qEukwO7xdErkO3FZ/pgCffSk2 NqZSkWYofY9HpD38yi6kVjU= =lgxL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1463656.GflPBnmud6--
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