Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:51:52 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <46A4C088.7040903@uni-paderborn.de> In-Reply-To: <18084.48565.688142.945366@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net> <18084.40711.665845.826349@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A4BC5E.6080006@uni-paderborn.de> <18084.48565.688142.945366@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> That's an option, but I was initially reluctant to touch > my internal disk. I'm also somewhat upset that the machine > can boot BSD or Linux only from an internal drive. If I were > to convert it to FreeBSD, then I'd be totally hosed when the internal > drive dies (its really buried in an iMac). > > With working EFI support it should be possible. > At any rate before I touch the internal disk, which GPU are you having > problems with? This box has a Radeon X1600. I've heard something > about ATI building their drivers with linux libs statically linked > in. Is that the problem? Is there no X.org driver. > > Ati X1600. Works only in Vesa only for me, which means 1152x768 max resolution on my 1440x900 screen, which is quite suboptimal. Arne
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