From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 16:53:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1761816A407 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:53:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D9343D58 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:53:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so2552145pye for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:53:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=THmSLYkn84GltdFwYqUqXtkNIk23vuaETOlRkN6/1jtl5NJ68NogcKgridfiaT/rQq2AthNXwxAw9IemAP+sxT2ZK/i7JvWEQ7F9us50osBENOXIT5fJGSXdWwI2Rwk0Ys6ZpCA2psofaR1DqbbGyN2ELVUhFmHCaIDu9FlCdow= Received: by 10.35.17.12 with SMTP id u12mr8134278pyi; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.119.12 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:52:55 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "Steve Roome" In-Reply-To: <20060925143355.GA1110@zebedee.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060923140057.GA1286@zebedee.home> <20060925143355.GA1110@zebedee.home> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3fbba1503253e555 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon >R300 3d support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:53:04 -0000 On 9/25/06, Steve Roome wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:39:21PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 9/23/06, Steve Roome 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.