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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:09:43 -0400
From:      "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com>
To:        thierry@herbelot.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)
Message-ID:  <47d0403c0806251209t2065e2b7o8f71606378d55e65@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200806251959.16817.thierry@herbelot.com>
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wr=
ote:
> Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a =E9crit :
>> 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 A=
MD
>> > 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-monitor=
s
>> 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, w=
hose
> integrated graphics board is supposed to be driven by radeonhd.
>

There's a dmesg and pciconf at
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/kaduk/freebsd/periphrasis/

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, so Intel P35 northbridge
and Intel ICH9 southbridge; the actual video card came with very
little documentation, but purpots to be a Radeon B2 256 HD2400PRO PCIe
by VisionTek.  The HD2400Pro part certainly seems accurate, at least.

When setting up radeonhd for the card, I did need to toggle the hotplug
detection bit in xorg.conf to get dual-monitor support; I haven't updated
xorg since I filed that report, so I don't know if's been fixed already.

-Ben Kaduk



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