Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:52:35 +0100 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: Radeon X1450 supported? Message-ID: <45C760D3.9000604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200701121355.22130.adamk@voicenet.com> References: <4586BF6A.9020902@gmail.com> <1168622949.27596.8.camel@memory> <45A7D1BC.4090607@gmail.com> <200701121355.22130.adamk@voicenet.com>
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Adam K Kirchhoff schreef: > On Friday 12 January 2007 13:21, Rene Ladan wrote: >> Adam K Kirchhoff schreef: >>> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 18:22 +0100, Rene Ladan wrote: >>>> Rene Ladan schreef: >>>>> Ivan Voras schreef: >>>>>> René Ladan wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I just bought a shiny new Asus A6JE laptop which has a ATI Radeon >>>>>>> X1450, but X.org 7.2rc3 does not recognize it. >>>>>>> Is there any solution or am I just unlucky :( ? >>>>>> If it's the same chip(set) generation as 1300, 1600 & 1900 (i.e. R5xx) >>>>>> then AFAIK you're out of luck, and you're not alone :( >>>>> Well, at least VESA works (at 1024 x 768), but VESA means no xv thus no >>>>> full screen mplayer :( >>>> The card is a RV515, mplayer works fullscreen with -vo sdl :) [...] >>>> I downloaded a binary installer from the ATI website [...] >> But Linux drivers aren't going to work on FreeBSD, do they? >> > I doubt it. Theoretically the Xorg module loader is OS independent. 2D > drivers from one x86 OS can be used on any other x86 OS. In theory... In > practice, who knows? :-) I did, briefly, use the 2D open source radeon > driver from Debian (using xorg 6.9) on FreeBSD over a year ago. But I've > never played with the fglrx driver under FreeBSD. > > Adam > I just put the X.org 7.1 Linux binary (fglrx_drv.so) into /usr/X11R6/lib/xorg/modules/drivers and changed my xorg.conf file to point to it, but starting X fails with a message that libpthread.so.0 (the Linux version, I assume) cannot be found. Mapping it to the native libpthread.so.2 or explicitly to the Linux libpthread-2.3.6.so using /etc/libmap.conf doesn't help, neither does brandelf(8)ing the binary to Linux help. Any ideas? -- GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net) "It won't fit on the line." -- me, 2001
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