Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:09:43 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: thierry@herbelot.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...) Message-ID: <47d0403c0806251209t2065e2b7o8f71606378d55e65@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200806251959.16817.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <200806250006.06789.thierry@herbelot.com> <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com> <200806251959.16817.thierry@herbelot.com>
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wr= ote: > Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a =E9crit : >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> > wrote: >> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd A= MD >> > 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-monitor= s >> 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, w= hose > integrated graphics board is supposed to be driven by radeonhd. > There's a dmesg and pciconf at http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/kaduk/freebsd/periphrasis/ The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, so Intel P35 northbridge and Intel ICH9 southbridge; the actual video card came with very little documentation, but purpots to be a Radeon B2 256 HD2400PRO PCIe by VisionTek. The HD2400Pro part certainly seems accurate, at least. When setting up radeonhd for the card, I did need to toggle the hotplug detection bit in xorg.conf to get dual-monitor support; I haven't updated xorg since I filed that report, so I don't know if's been fixed already. -Ben Kaduk
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