From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 19:17:09 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 74C581065682 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:17:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (five.mired.org [66.92.153.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA848FC24 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:17:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 54909 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2008 15:17:00 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO mbook.local) (192.168.195.193) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Jun 2008 15:17:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:17:06 -0400 From: Mike Meyer To: "Ben Kaduk" 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> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-apple-darwin9.2.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:20:59 +0000 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...) 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 19:17:09 -0000 On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" wrote: > 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 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. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org