From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 17:59:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9993D1065677 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3538FC1B for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA873EA135 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:59:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.herbelot.nom (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8843EA0F2 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:59:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by mail.herbelot.nom (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m5PHxSbv001639 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:59:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:59:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <200806250006.06789.thierry@herbelot.com> <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806251959.16817.thierry@herbelot.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:09:31 +0000 Subject: Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:59:32 -0000 Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD > > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ? > > Well, I'm using radeonhd right now on a > [kaduk@periphrasis /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public]$ uname -a > FreeBSD periphrasis.mit.edu 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Wed May > 14 00:27:26 EDT 2008 > root@periphrasis.mit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PERIPHRASIS amd64 good news ! > > I don't think I have anything that uses 3d installed at the moment, but > the 2d seems like it's getting accelerated (non-accelerated dual-monitors > can be painfully slow). what are the details for your machine ? (graphics board make, motherboard chipset etc) I was thinking of buying a new machine with AMD 780G or 790GX chipsets, whose integrated graphics board is supposed to be driven by radeonhd. TfH