Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:52:55 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Steve Roome" <steve@pepcross.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon >R300 3d support Message-ID: <cb5206420609250952ue69d476vd24314a0c9ac7cdb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060925143355.GA1110@zebedee.home> References: <20060923140057.GA1286@zebedee.home> <cb5206420609240639l39ce72fbk18e6b99c4eaa6982@mail.gmail.com> <20060925143355.GA1110@zebedee.home>
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On 9/25/06, Steve Roome <steve@pepcross.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:39:21PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 9/23/06, Steve Roome <steve@pepcross.com> wrote: > > >Hi, I've noticed a lot of people trying to get radeons with R300 and > > >newer cores working with FreeBSD and 3D acceleration. At least there's > > >been a fair few unanswered requests for it for a while now. > > > > > >So, does anyone know when the newer ati drivers will be put in the x.org > > >port, or when that will be updated. > > > > xorg 7.x will hit the ports tree any time now. 6.9 already has some > > basic support, e.g. my 9550 works, very slowly though. > > What do you mean by basic support ? My PCIE X700 now has semi working > 3D acceleration - glx and working dri working well enough to play with > a few OpenGL apps, I've gone so far as to actually set some of the > reallyslick screensavers up - and most work okay, well, not all, some > of them whine about the odd issue, but there is limited 3D acceleration > here. I mean, FWIW, that 6.9 has basic support for 3D on my 9550. 6.8 doesn't and I heard that 7.0 has much better support. > The 6.9 in the ports gave me only 2D acceleration, as expected, no DRI > no glx etc. > > So, which version of 7.x is coming into the ports, and what version of > the ati driver will be coming in with it ? 7.1, the one that's bundled.
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