Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:23:18 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: suggested xorg-compatible video HW for FreeBSD/amd64 ? Message-ID: <20111129092318.1db951c7@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vHOhs6LBtj7egg7fH39gQKu0eECNEU10Nf1s7i6By4sw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20111128092008.GA58668@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20111128123915.540564b1@ernst.jennejohn.org> <CAN6yY1vHOhs6LBtj7egg7fH39gQKu0eECNEU10Nf1s7i6By4sw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:55:46 -0800 Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Gary Jennejohn > <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote: > > As to ATI - I don't think that either radeonhd or the ati driver support > > these newer chips, but I could be wrong. I'm running radeonhd but I > > have integrated graphics based on the older ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics > > controller. > > > > -- > > Gary Jennejohn > > Just a quick reminder as it seems to be forgotten too often...radeonhd > has not been supported or updated in a long time and is generally a > bad choice. Modern Radeon (4xxx) is supported much better with the ati > driver which is still getting some love. > > Since Radeon is open-source, you might expect good support, but it > also depends on kernel mode setting and requires custom KMS DRI code > in the kernel which I am not sure anyone is working on for FreeBSD. > > Maybe when the Intel KMS is completed... > I used ATI for quite awhile, but I'm not running Xorg from ports but rather from HEAD and the ATI driver in ports doesn't work with it. Since radeonhd works well enough for me I didn't bother pursuing it. -- Gary Jennejohn
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