From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 16:40:25 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 7DB431065678 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598268FC1E for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A1B033C62; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC49833C5B; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by postfix.alerce.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5221845A1A0; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:29 -0700 (PDT) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18531.49553.276614.955953@almost.alerce.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:29 -0700 To: Mike Meyer In-Reply-To: <20080625151706.1de6e32d@mbook.local> 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> <20080625151706.1de6e32d@mbook.local> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:57:21 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ben Kaduk , 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 Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:40:25 -0000 Mike Meyer writes: > [...] > 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. radeonhd does offer 2d acceleration, and 3-d is a work-in-progress, with existing support for some of the newish cards. You can get more info here: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd Actually, the entire thing is still a work-in-progress, but the community is supportive. If you try to build from the git sources, you'll need to have the devel/xorg-macros port/package installed for the autogen.sh step to work. g.