From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 08:28:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C3D16A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:28:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from convex.cs.unb.ca (convex.cs.unb.ca [131.202.244.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2462143D4C for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bremner-dated-1073665706.abec36@convex.cs.unb.ca) Received: from bremner by convex.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AcS9y-000OUi-9o for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:28:26 -0400 Received: by convex.cs.unb.ca (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1266); Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:28:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from bremner (helo=convex.cs.unb.ca.unb.ca) by convex.cs.unb.ca with local-esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AcS9x-000OUX-DF; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:28:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <0tisjupb6e.wl@nohost.unb.ca> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" In-Reply-To: <000901c3d13d$0d40d9f0$d037630a@nic.target.com> References: <000901c3d13d$0d40d9f0$d037630a@nic.target.com> User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 14) (Reasonable Discussion) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: David Bremner X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.87 (Carry Back) X-TMDA-Fingerprint: kWVTjpRrOLK/Nc6c7V/2AZlOGlo X-Primary-Address: bremner@unb.ca X-Tmda-Bare: David Bremner Sender: David Bremner cc: FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro DRM/DRI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Bremner List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:28:35 -0000 At Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:31:03 -0600, Thomas T Veldhouse wrote: > > I recently built a kernel with the radeon DRM driver but it didn't work. I > noticed a comment that it only supports up to the ATI Radeon 9000/9100. Are > there any plans in the works to support later model cards? If so, what > needs to be done to finish this (and test it)? > I am running the x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap port (4.3.99.15) and it supports DRM/DRI with a a generic taiwanese radeon 9200. I have a vague memory that the 9700 support is not there in XFree86 yet (I just bought the card in December, and at that point I researched it). I think Eric Anholt is the expert http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri