Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:41:42 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Christof Schulze <christof.schulze@gmx.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002092016380.11722@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <201002100202.59954.christof.schulze@gmx.com> References: <6101e8c41002091524q25a7e026u585e575eb4f1589c@mail.gmail.com> <4B71FFA8.3070306@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <201002100202.59954.christof.schulze@gmx.com>
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Christof Schulze wrote: >> The situation is heavily unsatisfying, since one need an expensive >> AMD/ATi Radeon card to gain non-3D poor functionality, where a cheaper >> one should be do the same - but the cheaper ones don't work. Even if one >> uses AMD64, the situattion is worse and I have no reason using >> Linux-driver on a FreeBSD box. Hope the situation gets cleared in the >> nearest future. It's a kind of deadlock. As I said, either spenig a lot >> of money for a working RV770 based AMD graphics card with poor >> functionality or nothing so far, since most smaller RV730 chips aren't >> supported properly by the most recent drivers. > To be fair - my ATI X300 has always worked. It is a cheap card with low-end > performance but it is perfectly fine for regular desktop-use. The older chipsets are better supported because the newer ones are, well, newer. If you haven't bought a video card yet, look at the radeon(4x) man page first. Unfortunately, that doesn't help if you already have a newer card, or a notebook. The other choices are Intel, where they don't have standalone video cards, or nVidia, which has a full-featured blob and a really bare-bones open driver. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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