Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:22:35 +0100 From: alive <alive@dienub.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Isaac Mushinsky <itz@mushinsky.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use? Message-ID: <8075d7711d388c03aa94be62027552ea@dienub.org> In-Reply-To: <20080305193206.GC35180@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20080305171303.GA35180@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <d540b42863905eb88c89ddedd212a970@dienub.org> <20080305193206.GC35180@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Thanks. Do you by any chance have a link to supported cards? Do you know if this driver supports Composite? OpenGL? On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:32:06 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:29:51PM +0100, alive wrote: >> > Any ATI card up to and including the 9250 (rv280) is fully supported > on >> > amd64, 3D and all. (I know because I've got one :-) > >> Oh, is that so? Could you please tell me how you got it to work? Because >> I've got GREAT issues getting *ANY* ATI card to work with at least >> Composite on FreeBSD and/or Linux. And I've even got i386. Or has > something >> happened since I last cried myself to sleep over this driverless hell? > > - Add the device radeondrm to you kernel config and recompile, or load > the radeon.ko kernel module. > - Install the xf86-video-ati driver (this is xorg 7.3!) > - Load the right modules in xorg.conf; > Section "Module" > Load "dri" > Load "glx" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "freetype" > Load "type1" > EndSection > - Use the radeon driver in xorg.conf: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "radeon" > # Option "AGPMode" "8" > # Option "DDCMode" "true" > EndSection > > That's about it, I think. > > Roland > -- Sincerely, Rada
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