Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:25:29 -0400 From: Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fglrx ATI driver Message-ID: <4436AE99.7000600@pubnix.net> In-Reply-To: <20060407171935.91467.qmail@web30715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060407171935.91467.qmail@web30715.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hi,
Can I make a suggestion? (Don't wanna start a flame war, just my
opinion)
Drop ATI for nVidia.
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I was using and yes, hooked, on ATI since their VGA Wonder and more
with their 8514 compatible card
(for which I found a way to make it work with X11R4 btw, dont know
if its still there ... lookup aal@broue.rot.qc.ca).
But ATI close/limited access/"got snob" the developer channels and
stop providing documentation under the excuse that its propriatory
informations (yeah sure... come on).
So my ATI contacts dried up, no way to get a NDA to get that
documentation, and even then, there is no TV documentation, and 3D is
limited.
So bye, bye ATI.
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I got a nVidia 6600 and since nVidia support FreeBSD natively its a
breeze. (With 3D!)
Now TV is coming from a low cost bktr card and I'm happy.
Neil Short wrote:
>Has anybody had success with the fglrx driver?
>I had some difficulty building it since the qt33 port
>is hiccupping and this build tries to add a KDE icon -
>but I don't use KDE.
>
>doing:
>X -configure
>gives a bunch of lines that say...
>Symbol firegl_PM4Alloc from module
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o is
>unresolved!
>
>My graphics device is detected as:
>"RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
>
>BusID is "PCI:1:5:0"
>
>running FBSD current on Toshiba A105-S301 laptop.
>
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Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net
PubNIX Inc.
P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7
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