Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:25:47 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "deeptech71@gmail.com" <deeptech71@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 ? Message-ID: <cb5206420612250525p71658a9bu313961c2fb6062ae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <458F0A4D.9070203@gmail.com> References: <458ED3B9.7020908@gmail.com> <cb5206420612241208x589b478et8bdb49d8bcf6774@mail.gmail.com> <458F0A4D.9070203@gmail.com>
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On 12/25/06, deeptech71@gmail.com <deeptech71@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 12/24/06, deeptech71@gmail.com <deeptech71@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Last official ATI video card support for FreeBSD was the 9400 series > >> drivers. I've heard about some reverse engineered drivers from Linux. Is > >> there any way to get hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 series? I > >> want to run OpenGL applications, and not with software rendering. > > > > AFAIK, you get that with Xorg 7.x. > > > > Last time I was FreeBSDing was half a year ago. I'll test some 3D games > on the 6.2-RELEASE. I will get a decent framerate, will I? Unfortunately there are still some issues with Xorg 7.x, so it's not in the ports collection yet. Fortunately you can try those issues for yourself using a great howto at: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularXorg Good luck!
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