Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:59:02 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 ? Message-ID: <45900356.3080306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420612250525p71658a9bu313961c2fb6062ae@mail.gmail.com> References: <458ED3B9.7020908@gmail.com> <cb5206420612241208x589b478et8bdb49d8bcf6774@mail.gmail.com> <458F0A4D.9070203@gmail.com> <cb5206420612250525p71658a9bu313961c2fb6062ae@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > 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! > AMD has bought ATI so there maybe hope for official drivers. Meanwhile, Xorg, keep up the good work :] . OK, that would be it, thanx for the help!
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