Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:17:06 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, thierry@herbelot.com Subject: Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...) Message-ID: <20080625151706.1de6e32d@mbook.local> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <1214322926.1505.65.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <7d6fde3d0806241040x6ed9dea6y79d2c2d62ff1b30f@mail.gmail.com> <200806250006.06789.thierry@herbelot.com> <47d0403c0806251000q66162234nac5c0b1f7bf9b64c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 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
I'm not sure those are the drivers Theierry wants. The proprietary
driver was called fglrx, not "radeon" or "radeonhd". Those two drivers
have been in the X open source trees for quite a while now. I first
started using the radeon driver on amd64 in late 2006. The versions I
have checked out for FreeBSD are documented as
Radeonhd has no 2d or 3d acceleration.
Radeon has both, but only works for older cards.
That is also on 7-stable, but I haven't updated the sources in a
while.
<mike
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