Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:57:07 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro DRM/DRI? Message-ID: <3FF62173.6020609@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1073094851.12760.0.camel@leguin> References: <000901c3d13d$0d40d9f0$d037630a@nic.target.com> <1073083401.690.5.camel@leguin> <3FF61A84.5030408@FreeBSD.org> <1073094851.12760.0.camel@leguin>
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Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 17:27, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>>Eric Anholt wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:31, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I recently built a kernel with the radeon DRM driver but it didn't work. I
>>>>noticed a comment that it only supports up to the ATI Radeon 9000/9100. Are
>>>>there any plans in the works to support later model cards? If so, what
>>>>needs to be done to finish this (and test it)?
>>>
>>>
>>>There is no open-source support for 3d on r300+ cards, which includes
>>>everything above the 9500.
>>
>>So the 9500 works, but everything after that is not supported? Is that
>>true with XFree 4.4 as well?
>
>
> No, that was supposed to be "everything 9500 and above." Sorry.
Argh. So, what's the last ATI card that has open-source 3d support? I'm
going to be looking for a new system soon, and it sounds like nvidia is
going to be my only option.
Doug
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