Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:46:56 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@speakeasy.net> To: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Enable Some DRI Support for Radeon HD 4850 Message-ID: <4F189D60.4080207@speakeasy.net>
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My video card is a radeon HD 4850 which would use the r600_dri.so module, if one was installed. The fallback module is swrast_dri.so. I am using the radeon driver in xorg.conf. Running 8.2-RELEASE with mostly 8.2-R ports. Is there a way that I can get _some_ 3D hardware support? I don't need it to be perfect. I'd like celestia to run a bit faster than dog slow. Perhaps I can manually force a module that somewhat supports the HD 4850. I tried faking out the automagic system by 'ln -s r300_dri.so r600_dri.so' but that didn't work. r300 was unable to identify the chip and so fallback to the swrast_dri.so module occurred. I've looked into updating graphics/dri to 7.11.2, but that is turning out to be an effort in tracking down and tweaking a lot of dependencies. Thanks, Jason C. Wells
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