From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 15:42:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF7916A41F; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:42:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [63.240.77.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA50A43D45; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:42:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (host59.gtisd.com[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005112115421901400l2e1je>; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:42:19 +0000 Message-ID: <4381EAD0.9030406@computer.org> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:42:08 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxime Henrion References: <20051119015322.S27789@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <20051121093058.165817d1.alvest@earthlink.net> <20051121150552.GH1327@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20051121150552.GH1327@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Albert Vest Subject: Re: ATI drivers for FreeBSD - anything? [Slightly OT] 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: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:42:21 -0000 Maxime Henrion wrote: > Albert Vest wrote: > >>On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:58:25 +0200 (EET) >>Vladimir Kushnir 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