Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:14:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X questions before installing FreeBSD 7.2 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905181208260.80739@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <200905181358.n4IDwIVa024836@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200905181358.n4IDwIVa024836@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Mon, 18 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:38:52 -0700 (PDT) "David Johnson" > <david@usermode.org> wrote: >>> My questions before getting started later today run like this. >>> >>> a) What exactly is supported in the version of X.org distributed with >>> FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE for this Mobility Radeon 9800 card, given the >>> chip set(s), the screen capabilities, 256 MB on the card, and >>> anything else you happen to notice in the excerpts above? >> >> You only had excerpts from Xorg.log, but xorg-7.4 with Radeon 9800 (using >> radeon driver) should have hardware acceleration, OpenGL and compositing. >> You just need to configure your xorg.conf file correctly. The driver for >> the r300 chipset should be very stable. > > So the r300 driver is the one that supports the R420 chip and its mobile > equivalent, the M18 chip? M18 is not mentioned in the radeon man page. http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon shows the R420/M18 as equivalent, but says they are Radeon X800, not 9800. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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