Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:57:20 -0400 From: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.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: <BAY126-W81B84D532E052DE96DF73CAA30@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0806260732w588ed266ve519449f132f90b6@mail.gmail.com> 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> <7d6fde3d0806260732w588ed266ve519449f132f90b6@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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 card= s on FreeBSD.> > AMD was supposed to be helping ATI, but it appears that af= ter the> merger all that's happened is a website change and ATI's drivers h= ave> 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> difficul= ty I had trying to get it to work with X11.> > Then again things may have c= hanged since that time too...> > My 2 cents,> -Garrett =20 AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the ATI cards st= arting with the most recent. From a news article iI came across they were a= ctually hiring a whole new department whose sole purpose was to add more of= the older cards to the open sorce drivers as well as eventually having 3d = acceleration. As for the NEW 4000 series, the card will come with full driv= ers for windows and Linux on the install CD. granted there is still some co= ding to get BSD drivers, but AMD is making life better for *nix user with A= TI cards. =
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