Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:56 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@speakeasy.net> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Enable Some DRI Support for Radeon HD 4850 Message-ID: <4F18A0A8.1000700@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F189D60.4080207@speakeasy.net> References: <4F189D60.4080207@speakeasy.net>
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on 20/01/2012 00:46 Jason C. Wells said the following: > 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. > Google for "xorg-dev" and FreeBSD, that repository has more modern versions of many X-related ports. -- Andriy Gapon
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