From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 10:47:03 2008 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 2DBC81065670 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:47:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3C88FC13 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:47:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so422464yxb.13 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:47:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=lHkUnjvsa0SPVZo+8aXjYUQb8dzh6sDWITbNXYRLSVs=; b=brvhX0wYVsKymE2XCXevmfKNQENhbpxoSgbtSxUKQ0lUqR07YPR+BHX362mMtE+wiH 0nbzQBf9dXIokpNfS1n35oUq4WHgrMhUouk/vl0LuID95TjAyqvv24JEIZ/A0OnYfR6H 3Zrgzhkq2F53WPkdOP8nb0tJI4KxfUhLbeDAQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=GShYlYTkh1CZyUbDJVI9NwGsizokQqqUtscnljEneTNw/aamHgtXc2ahxNZReRism3 U0Y6i4oxIb584iB8uIOMqjE/xVq2+LWepMesHSDV1GW8OhafFkQm4D1zX/+Ne1tIX7N9 6aNN7swfjNQ6bNijNGkGC6oLhhrZPABo39rG0= Received: by 10.150.230.15 with SMTP id c15mr13232888ybh.2.1227782822270; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:47:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.54.9 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:47:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:47:02 +0100 From: "Rene Ladan" To: "Adam K Kirchhoff" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200811200559.19088.adamk@voicenet.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenGL 2 supported on ATI RV370? 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: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:47:03 -0000 2008/11/20 Rene Ladan : > 2008/11/20 Adam K Kirchhoff : >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:02:34 +0100 >> >> "Rene Ladan" wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 i386 at work. The computer has an ATI >> >>> RV370 (X300SE) >> >>> card installed. According to glxinfo, the supported OpenGL version >> >>> 1.3 using Mesa 7.0.3. >> >>> >> >>> I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver, the ports are up-to-date. DRI >> >>> seems to work fine. >> >>> >> >>> Is there a way to get OpenGL 2 support on this machine (using -CURRENT >> >>> with some patches?) >> >>> or should I install Linux on it so that I can use the commercial >> >>> FGLRX driver? >> >> The r300 Mesa driver supports many of the opengl 2.0 extensions, but >> >> not all of them. If you need complete opengl 2 support with that card, >> >> then fglrx is much more likely to fulfill your needs. >> > That would be xf86-video-ati with mesa-7.0.3 ? That only claims to support > OpenGL 1.3. I'm currently burning a Ubuntu 8.10 CD so that I can use the > FGLRX driver. The port I mentioned yesterday isn't recognized by (modern > versions of) X.org. > That didn't work out either. I hit the exact same problem with the FGLRX driver (from 2008-10-12) on Ubuntu. I've replaced the card with a cheap Nvidia EN7300TC512 using the nvidia-glx-177-dev driver which works fine in Ubuntu. Regards, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)