Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:46:36 -0600 From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi Message-ID: <20050816094636.17ce5e3e.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <43020508.4090407@samsco.org> References: <20050816121701.74816.qmail@web54306.mail.yahoo.com> <4301E39F.1050500@samsco.org> <4302047F.4020401@gmail.com> <43020508.4090407@samsco.org>
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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:23:52 -0400 Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > Ethereal mind wrote: > > Frank S. wrote: > > > >>> Hi I want to start using freebsd, and i'm not sure if it will work on > >>> my system, I have a asus A8V-E Deluxe motherboard and Ati pci expres > >>> video card X700 Pro. > >>> thank you Frank > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> I have almost the same system, but with an X600 card. It works fine > >> with the exception of the on-board network controllers. As long as > >> you're willing to drop in an alternate network card, it's a very > >> good board. > >> > >> Scott > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > > Do you have your video card working? I mean graphic acceleration. > > > > No. Apparently the latest X11 DRI/DRM code will work with an AGP R3xx > card, but not a PCI-E R3xx card. I don't know the status beyond that. Good toknow. Per the radeon manpage <http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/radeon.4.html>; pcie falls back to pci: PCIE -- PCI Express (falls back to PCI at present) (used only when DRI is enabled) So I took that to mean that DRI worked.... -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
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