From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 19:58:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9449116A403 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4677713C45A for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so1862282ana for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:58:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=QU3OlLbRoA0nccY6oMLDa1G0raBUJFeqPRLsxwnaC7W/zyUh1pdJ/DZElOso1V5NJP0Uy8t8VcquB+Adp8R2IA8KDrr4S4Qzik/z53aP343mnYZrMUjPSblNPtUT99VARn8d3KFBFkKYF+fseuwTha0Gr53drdt8UdC5WTJvhns= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Y6HvB+KKvgzJe1KYSKjQtwFm4onC1a+t8BlHtSu10dlcFphb3ZLauvN3aNZDLizOxnKUIIZsvnsYm1xgqCjLKhdmntaS0XIuDtGwuNQ+xK6x7xE0xQxgPum/alHv5rqEQB5hNPBLpYHB5snZAZ1ZyCKJRVqWfwNcDmLfS2m6T68= Received: by 10.100.139.9 with SMTP id m9mr1254402and.1173815914363; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.109.12 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Daniel O'Connor" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:58:35 -0000 We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Here's the email address of AMD's president: dirk.meyer@amd.com Give him your two cents. On 3/12/07, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:10, Yann Golanski wrote: > > I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire and I am trying to get X/FreeBSD > > working with it. My system is a clean install of FreBSD. I've managed to > > get VESA to "work" but cannot get much more than that. > > There is no open source support for this card (alas). It's VESA or fglrx. >