Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:59:16 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...) Message-ID: <200806251959.16817.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <200806250006.06789.thierry@herbelot.com> <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com>
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Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wrote: > > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD > > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ? > > Well, I'm using radeonhd right now on a > [kaduk@periphrasis /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public]$ uname -a > FreeBSD periphrasis.mit.edu 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Wed May > 14 00:27:26 EDT 2008 > root@periphrasis.mit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PERIPHRASIS amd64 good news ! > > I don't think I have anything that uses 3d installed at the moment, but > the 2d seems like it's getting accelerated (non-accelerated dual-monitors > can be painfully slow). what are the details for your machine ? (graphics board make, motherboard chipset etc) I was thinking of buying a new machine with AMD 780G or 790GX chipsets, whose integrated graphics board is supposed to be driven by radeonhd. TfH
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