Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:54:59 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems running OpenGL code Message-ID: <n4hn2p$jpe$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <566C3DAD.8090809@hiwaay.net> <20151212173509.fba928df.freebsd@edvax.de> <566C51CB.8040604@hiwaay.net> <566C536F.8080507@hiwaay.net> <n4hla4$hkm$3@ger.gmane.org> <566C5C67.9070704@hiwaay.net>
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William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [snip] >> What I don't have any clue is the exact support for the specific chip you >> are trying to use; it may not exist yet or may be a WIP. Maybe there is >> some bleeding edge patch or code around somewhere you can try if nothing >> currently in Release is working. >> >> -Mike > > I just looked at both links & the 2nd one appears to say my video is not > supported. It didn't mention my exact hardware, but said: > > > AMD > > Radeon HD 8000 > > Sea Islands > > Not supported > > My xorg.conf shows: > > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] > #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>] > #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>] > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "vesa" > VendorName "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]" > BoardName "Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series]" > BusID "PCI:0:1:0" > EndSection > > > So I guess I am hosed. However .... I thought the VESA driver would at > least provide basic (albeit brutally slow/choppy/etc) functionality, > wrong there as well ? Thanks & TIA & have a good one :-). > VESA should show you a screen, which should be perhaps useable for text-mode CLI and maybe some basic graphics (slow, very slow, as in repaint entire screen line by line for any update). I have an old laptop with an ancient radeon chip which is so old support has actually been removed so that VESA is the only way I can use it. It does work with GUI desktops, just slowly. VESA mode(s) will never give you any support for GL and there won't be any way (to my limited knowledge) to run code that depends on GL libraries. -Mike
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