From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 6 17:13:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6551065670; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@nuenneri.ch) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042448FC1D; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 22so967902eye.9 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:13:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.87.66 with SMTP id x44mr2014194wee.96.1260118082226; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:48:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1260108237.2315.259.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <20091205080133.GA87230@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <1260108237.2315.259.camel@balrog.2hip.net> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:47:42 +0100 Message-ID: To: Robert Noland Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov , Norikatsu Shigemura Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Experimental 3D HW accel support for Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx. X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:13:05 -0000 On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 15:03, Robert Noland wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 10:01 +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:42:43AM +0900, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote: >> > Hi Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx users! >> > >> > =A0 =A0 I'm ready to update ports related Mesa3D to 7.6 base, graphics= /dri, >> > =A0 =A0 graphics/libGL*, graphics/libglut, graphics/mesa-demos and >> > =A0 =A0 graphics/libdrm. =A0Please see also my attached patch file. = =A0I'll >> > =A0 =A0 update these as soon as tomorrow. >> > >> > =A0 =A0 Mesa3D 7.6 supports experimental r600 driver, as known as AMD >> > =A0 =A0 R6xx/R7xx architecture. =A0I confirmed that it's good works, b= ut >> > =A0 =A0 buggy on my Radeon HD 4850 environment with 9-current/amd64 an= d >> > =A0 =A0 xf86-video-radeonhd-devel. =A0Please see also [I known problem= ] >> > =A0 =A0 section. >> I use similiar setup(but with mesa git master) for more than a month >> without a problem. HD 3650 AGP. glxgear, other demos and even some old >> games in wine like deusex work fine. > > Openarena, UT, vdrift, nexuiz, etc... should all work fairly well also. > There are still features that are not yet implemented on r600, but I > tend to run all of the above all video options enabled on highest > settings. =A0Really large textures are slow and it seems like I found one > option that really hurt performance (bloom maybe), but otherwise they > are all more than playable on my HD4650 core2duo e7400. > > Disclaimer: I'm not a gamer... but I do use them for testing. > > robert. One thing I know is interesting for many people is playing World of Warcraft under wine. Last time I checked it wasn't even possible under linux with catalyst. Do you know anything about this or have tried it?