Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:43:45 -0500 From: Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Message-ID: <20031120174345.GR98840@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpwu9vl77n.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <410-22003110931318375@earthlink.net> <xzpwu9vl77n.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Thus spake Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des@des.no) [20/11/03 04:28]: > What makes you think there is a secret trick to make it work? Unless > you have chip docs and experience with XFree86 internals, you'll just > have to wait for it to be supported. The 9600/9800 cards have accelleration in XFree86's CVS. It's planned for 4.4. To get it now, you can install x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap (and, obviously, remove x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server). However, ATI seems to have been completely unresponsive to releasing docs for the kernel-level accelleration. So there's little benefit in running the accellerated X driver (aside from the fact that you can actually use your graphics card). So yes, this is very much a waiting game, unfortunately. I haven't seen any indication (after two e-mails to them) that they are willing to release any sort of documentation on the cards, nor drivers.
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