Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:28:39 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <46A4C927.5080200@uni-paderborn.de> In-Reply-To: <1185203299.2146.2.camel@localhost> 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> <46A4C088.7040903@uni-paderborn.de> <1185203299.2146.2.camel@localhost>
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Eric Anholt schrieb: > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 16:51 +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote: > >>> 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. >> > > If you grab the reverse-engineered xf86-video-avivo driver from xorg, > that will at least get you native modesetting, even if it doesn't get > you hardware acceleration. > > Ah nice. I will try if time permits, but at the Moment I set up my workspace under OS X. Arne
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