Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:58:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: support@fglrx-freebsd.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and ATI card query. Message-ID: <200703130358.l2D3w5N7092468@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200703131054.30318.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor writes: | On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:10, Yann Golanski wrote: | > I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire and I am trying to get X/FreeBSD | > working with it. My system is a clean install of FreBSD. I've managed to | > get VESA to "work" but cannot get much more than that. | | There is no open source support for this card (alas). It's VESA or fglrx. | | > fglrx gives me an error at compile time since I do not have | > /usr/X11R6/bin/moc installed. | | Is this using the FreeBSD port at http://www.fglrx-freebsd.com/index.php? If | so you could just install moc which is part of qt. FWIW, I just went through this exercise for my new laptop. Vesa doesn't do 1920x1200 :-( and it isn't on amd64 :-( So I wanted to use the Linux fglrx. The one that he is to old to support my laptop. Realize that he does compile some misc. tools they are not needed for X to work. Really he is taking the Linux X drivers (fglxrc_drv.o & libfglrxdrm.a) and putting them into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. The caveat is that you need an old enough version that doesn't link against Linux specific things like pthreads etc. which the newest ones do. Another caveat is that the older versions were built again X.org 6.8 so then you need an X.org of the version. In 6.9 some structures changed leading to a core dump :-( I ended up building my own X.org 6.8, install and then install the typical -current X stuff. The next thing I'm going to work on is to get the 32bit X server to run on a 64bit kernel so I can switch over to 64bit. Doug A.
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