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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:06:10 +0200
From:      David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux DRI (and Google Earth)
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=ZLwjwxgLDTzX0XOJ-Bs6%2Bg9K3HNYxVzxNx581@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/9/12 Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>:
> Hello.
>
> What's the status of 3d hardware acceleration in Linux emulation?
> I'm running 8.1R/i386 and I was finally able to get DRI working (with nat=
ive
> software) on my Radeon HD 4200.
> So I installe Google Earth, but it's warning that it will use software
> rendering and is, of course, slow.
>
> %pkg_info|grep linux
> linux-f10-dri-7.2_1 Mesa libGL runtime libraries and DRI drivers (Linux
> Fedora
> linux-f10-expat-2.0.1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library
> (Linux
> linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for X Wind=
ows
> (Linux Fe
> linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1 Xorg libraries (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux_base-f10-10_2 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode for i386/am=
d64
> (L
>
> I had linux-dri-7.4_1 installed by default, but tried switching to
> linux-f10-dri-7.2_1; nothing changed.
>
> =C2=A0bye & Thanks
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0av.
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The version 7.4 of DRI hasn't the support of hardware acceleration of
radeon hd cards. We need to update the linux mesa port to 7.6 to get
it.

Cheers,

--=20
Demelier David



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