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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:43:44 +0200
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
To:        Werner Lehmann <lehmannwer@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about OpenGL Version on ATI Radeon HD 4850 using KMS
Message-ID:  <535817F0.8020706@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1398258416.2545.17.camel@amd64.my.domain>
References:  <1398258416.2545.17.camel@amd64.my.domain>

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On 04/23/14 15:06, Werner Lehmann wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> first of all I would like to thank you for the wonderful job you have
> done so far on implementing KMS on FreeBSD. As I have a Radeon HD 4850
> card in my windows-pc, I wanted to give it a try with FreeBSD 10.0
> (32bit) which I installed on a 4GB USB-Stick. I compiled xorg using the
> options
> 
> WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
> WITH_GALLIUM=yes
> 
> as described in https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
> 
> and also installed mesa-demos and a minimal graphical environment
> (fluxbox) for testing.
> 
> When typing 'glxinfo' I could see that I had direct rendering and OpenGL
> 2.1. I also tested Darkplaces (pkg install darkplaces) and it ran fine,
> at a resolution of 1680 x 1050 at approx. 40 fps, so wow!
> 
> But my question is: Why only OpenGL 2.1, when according to mesa3g.org in
> mesa 9.1 there is already OpenGL 3.1 and in mesa 10.1 OpenGL 3.3?
> 
> What is missing and what still needs to be done and when can a higher
> version of OpenGL be expected?
> 
> Thank you very much!

Can you post the complete output from glxinfo, and also a Xorg.log.0 or
something like that.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising



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