From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 07:28:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DBF37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corb.mc.mpls.visi.com (corb.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEB943FA3 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from veldy.net (veldy-host33.dsl.visi.com [209.98.200.33]) by corb.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACADA8314; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:28:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 4K3500B (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 12FA0837C; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:28:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <015d01c33413$97cbba80$d037630a@dh.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" References: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:28:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:28:49 -0000 Yes they are. They are DRM drivers exactly for this purpose. There is a section further down the page that references this: "Getting 3d acceleration to work" Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro > Those drivers are not for 3D support. Those are for getting things like TV > out on laptops and cards that have it to work. > > Ken > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php > > > > The binary drivers do not work, presumably because they were compiled with > > gcc-2.95.2? I think the modules for X (not the kernel modules) are supposed > > to be portable between platforms (i.e. Linux and FreeBSD). However, you can > > CVS source and try to build from there, but I have had no luck as I have not > > been able to login: > > > > [veldy@fuggle ati]$ > > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gatos login > > Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/gatos > > CVS password: > > cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) > > > > I have the drivers working great under Linux using Gentoo ... but I would > > like my workstation to be FreeBSD for the obvious reason ... but I need > > accellerated OpenGL support. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" > > To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" > > Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" > > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:00 AM > > Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro > > > > > > > You actually found a site that had drivers for FreeBSD? I was under the > > > impression that such a thing didn't exist. Basically this card has no 3d > > > acceleration support in FreeBSD. > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > > > > > This weekend I installed KDE and noticed that the OpenGL screen savers > > were > > > > incredibly slow. It is clear that the graphic accelleration provided by > > my > > > > ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card is not being used. I found a site that > > had > > > > drivers apparently for FreeBSD, but it didn't seem to work. I am > > running > > > > FreeBSD 5.1. Are there adequate drivers out there to support this? > > > > > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >