From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 18:25:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7141B16A402 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:25:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Received: from mail.pubnix.net (Mail.pubnix.net [192.172.250.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66CC43D7B for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:25:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (aal.pubnix.net [64.235.216.13]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.pubnix.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k37IPTSo042066 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:25:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Message-ID: <4436AE99.7000600@pubnix.net> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:25:29 -0400 From: Alain Hebert Organization: PubNIX, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20060407171935.91467.qmail@web30715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060407171935.91467.qmail@web30715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fglrx ATI driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ahebert@pubnix.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:25:32 -0000 Hi, Can I make a suggestion? (Don't wanna start a flame war, just my opinion) Drop ATI for nVidia. ----- 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. ----- 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. > >====== >Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; and he is able to bring low those who walk in pride. >Daniel 4:37 > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514-990-9443