Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:53:22 -0400 From: Ean Kingston <ean@istop.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: 3d acceleration support for ATI or other Message-ID: <08A384A8-2705-40C9-980B-01DECE7CD7D8@istop.com> References: <80D27029-6F7D-4026-BE29-FAB951CF918D@istop.com>
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Sorry, I hit the wrong reply button. Begin forwarded message: > From: Ean Kingston <ean@istop.com> > Date: August 10, 2007 5:52:34 PM EDT (CA) > To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > Subject: Re: 3d acceleration support for ATI or other > > > On Aug 10, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:31:44 +0200 >> Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> wrote: >> >>> Norberto Meijome wrote: >> >>>> [snipped] >>>> OTOH, you can check xorg 7.2 support for 3d cards - if I >>>> understand it >>>> correctly, the 9550 is part of the r300 driver [url snipped]. >>> >>> That's right, but the X.org radeon driver only supports 3D >>> acceleration >>> up to the rv280. See 'man radeon' for more details ;-) >> >> The radeon driver in modular xorg has experimental 3D acceleration >> for r300 and r400 cards. >> >> [...] > > Does it work and how difficult is it to get the video card working > properly? > > [Note:] Based on other information I found, I returned the ATI 9550 > and got a moderately more expensive GeForce 9600 card because there > is much more information about getting them working. Unfortunately, > it is generating vertical fuzzy lines that I can't get rid of. >
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