From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 23:19:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1416106566B for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:19:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akirchhoff135014@comcast.net) Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953FB8FC19 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.52]) by qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Paww1i00117dt5G51b6YNy; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:06:32 +0000 Received: from sorrow.ashke.com ([68.38.117.6]) by omta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Pb6Y1i01H08Mag43Zb6Yxu; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:06:32 +0000 Message-ID: <4F18A1F7.80303@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:06:31 -0500 From: Adam K Kirchhoff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120104 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <4F189137.4020503@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <4F189137.4020503@speakeasy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Enable Some DRI Support for Radeon HD 4850 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:19:48 -0000 On 01/19/12 16:55, Jason C. Wells wrote: > My video card is a radeon HD 4850 which would use the r600_dri.so > module, if one was installed. The fallback module is swrast_dri.so. > I am using the radeon driver in xorg.conf. Running 8.2-RELEASE with > mostly 8.2-R ports. > > Is there a way that I can get _some_ 3D hardware support? I don't > need it to be perfect. I'd like celestia to run a bit faster than dog > slow. Perhaps I can manually force a module that somewhat supports the > HD 4850. > > I tried faking out the automagic system by 'ln -s r300_dri.so > r600_dri.so' but that didn't work. r300 was unable to identify the > chip and so fallback to the swrast_dri.so module occurred. > > I've looked into updating graphics/dri to 7.11.2, but that is turning > out to be an effort in tracking down and tweaking a lot of dependencies. > > Thanks, > Jason C. Wells > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You just need to set WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=yes in /etc/make.conf and (re)build mesa, libdrm, and libGL. Adam