Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:29 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.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: <18531.49553.276614.955953@almost.alerce.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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Mike Meyer writes: > [...] > 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. radeonhd does offer 2d acceleration, and 3-d is a work-in-progress, with existing support for some of the newish cards. You can get more info here: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd Actually, the entire thing is still a work-in-progress, but the community is supportive. If you try to build from the git sources, you'll need to have the devel/xorg-macros port/package installed for the autogen.sh step to work. g.
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