Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:42:08 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Albert Vest <alvest@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: ATI drivers for FreeBSD - anything? [Slightly OT] Message-ID: <4381EAD0.9030406@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <20051121150552.GH1327@elvis.mu.org> References: <20051119015322.S27789@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <20051121093058.165817d1.alvest@earthlink.net> <20051121150552.GH1327@elvis.mu.org>
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Maxime Henrion wrote: > Albert Vest wrote: > >>On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:58:25 +0200 (EET) >>Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@i.kiev.ua> wrote: >> >> >>>Hi all, >>>Is there any project on FreeBSD wrapper for ATI Linux drivers (like >>>nVidia's used to be)? If so - I'd be more than happy to test (sorry I can >>>hardly write it myself). >>> >>>Regards, >>>Vladimir >> >>I too would welcome this, mainly for ATI sound but also for video. >> >>I see the x11/nvidia-driver port can still be built with LINUX compatibility turned on; maybe if we "make extract" with LINUX=yes, the source code will contain some hints to how it can be done? > > > The Linux compatibility in the nvidia-driver has nothing to do with a > wrapper to run Linux drivers; nVidia releases a build of this driver for > FreeBSD. The Linux compatibility option is here to install nVidia's > Linux OpenGL libraries so that Linux binaries can run with FreeBSD's > driver. This is possible because nVidia's OpenGL libraries communicate > with the driver by using /dev/nvidia and the FreeBSD driver offers the > same interface. With the above said... I have a ATI Radeon m7500 card, and Linux game (nwn) which requires OpenGL (I think). the game is unusably slow. When the game play begins, my frame rate drops to 2fps. I suspect some misconfiguration with my linux-compat openGL setup. Does the ATI driver have a similar 'Linux Compatibility' knob? In short, there is no easy way to use the ATI drivers > for Linux under FreeBSD. > > Cheers, > Maxime > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric
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