Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:03:17 -0500 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org HW-accel driver for ATI Radeon 2400 XT (R600)? Message-ID: <200812091103.17263.adamk@voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200812091101.26578.adamk@voicenet.com> References: <20081209144748.GA5518@aurora.oekb.co.at> <200812091101.26578.adamk@voicenet.com>
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On Tuesday 09 December 2008 11:01:26 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2008 09:47:48 Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anybody out there sucessfully got X.org running on a ATI Radeon > > 2400 XT card (R600 chipset) with a HW-accel driver? > > > > If yes: Any caveats/pitfalls/things to watch out for? > > > > Thanks much in advance for any hints, > > There is no hardware accelerated driver for that GPU under FreeBSD. There > will hopefully be an open source driver (Novell is working on one) within a > few months, but nothing yet. > > Adam Let me correct myself. There is support for modesetting, and 2D acceleration via shadowfb in the radeon and radeonhd drivers. You can often get decent 2D performance via shadowfb, but nothing great. No Xv support, and no 3D support. Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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