From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 09:44:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEE616A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.sentex.ca (smtp3.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C57943FE5 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smtp3.sentex.ca (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAKHi0m5089825 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:44:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: from pegmatite.sentex.ca (pegmatite.sentex.ca [192.168.42.92]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAKHi2Uq027240 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:44:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: by pegmatite.sentex.ca (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9E4191715F; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:43:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:43:45 -0500 From: Damian Gerow To: hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031120174345.GR98840@sentex.net> References: <410-22003110931318375@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Key-Id: 0xB841F142 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7C1 E1D1 EC06 7C86 AF7C 57E6 173D 9CF6 B841 F142 X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:44:05 -0000 Thus spake Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des@des.no) [20/11/03 04:28]: > What makes you think there is a secret trick to make it work? Unless > you have chip docs and experience with XFree86 internals, you'll just > have to wait for it to be supported. The 9600/9800 cards have accelleration in XFree86's CVS. It's planned for 4.4. To get it now, you can install x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap (and, obviously, remove x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server). However, ATI seems to have been completely unresponsive to releasing docs for the kernel-level accelleration. So there's little benefit in running the accellerated X driver (aside from the fact that you can actually use your graphics card). So yes, this is very much a waiting game, unfortunately. I haven't seen any indication (after two e-mails to them) that they are willing to release any sort of documentation on the cards, nor drivers.