Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:32:13 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>, thierry@herbelot.com Subject: Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0806260732w588ed266ve519449f132f90b6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080625151706.1de6e32d@mbook.local> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <1214322926.1505.65.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <7d6fde3d0806241040x6ed9dea6y79d2c2d62ff1b30f@mail.gmail.com> <200806250006.06789.thierry@herbelot.com> <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com> <20080625151706.1de6e32d@mbook.local>
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 > > I'm not sure those are the drivers Theierry wants. The proprietary > driver was called fglrx, not "radeon" or "radeonhd". Those two drivers > have been in the X open source trees for quite a while now. I first > started using the radeon driver on amd64 in late 2006. The versions I > have checked out for FreeBSD are documented as > > Radeonhd has no 2d or 3d acceleration. > Radeon has both, but only works for older cards. > > That is also on 7-stable, but I haven't updated the sources in a > while. fglrx is the only way that anyone's going to get true 3D OpenGL support, and the last time I checked that wasn't available except for ancient cards on FreeBSD. AMD was supposed to be helping ATI, but it appears that after the merger all that's happened is a website change and ATI's drivers have gotten worse... last time I tried x64 support with Linux I was sadly shocked by the poor programming that went into the driver and the difficulty I had trying to get it to work with X11. Then again things may have changed since that time too... My 2 cents, -Garrett
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