From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 19:09:45 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 9E383106566C for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:09:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C628FC34 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:09:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j71so911729rne.12 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:09:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bcH8pIOlLQiVQ3TwDxxYwPQaLETZaUsEzYFLiz6eauo=; b=TmcqOHeKEhfYucC4SDJvwMrv5+C29Y68M6vjBQ7fywibT+q2ISzTPXTX6usqWbXeId 7aHZcdEVn8KlmJUg6pMmfsK6/vIOR+dcylqxSXji7DY64UuYIBiZ3kkQl/qjjN6AcOD6 IWgz3B1rbAC0T8vPw+rfgkjpKe+P0ccg59E7k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=S1piuwZrwYqjZo0E7w8RIws8wBWr/oe83mFGvyt1b4QRng2HUb2Of+Czkf1PCfhw/b Yl0NOKHKL9N7ejPxB3UmYkUnS9jz+gDTQv1JCzBn2W/q9eE2Azf9ExrWn4CLuICqCVR5 mYhjS6ZV8lTNQ12rwimYi/BX0skZwYIgCTDjc= Received: by 10.151.100.17 with SMTP id c17mr226375ybm.210.1214420983581; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.67.2 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47d0403c0806251209t2065e2b7o8f71606378d55e65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:09:43 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: thierry@herbelot.com In-Reply-To: <200806251959.16817.thierry@herbelot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <200806250006.06789.thierry@herbelot.com> <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com> <200806251959.16817.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...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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 19:09:45 -0000 On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Thierry Herbelot wr= ote: > Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a =E9crit : >> 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 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