Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:16:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: pj@smo.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 7.2 and Radeon question Message-ID: <200706052316.l55NGXZW008070@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:20:05 +0200 Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> wrote:
>Scott Bennett wrote:
>> My Dell Inspiron XPS has a graphics card identified at boot time as
>>
>> drm0: <ATI Radeon JN R420 Mobility M18> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xfcff0000-0xfcffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
>>
>> and by X.org 6.9.0 as
>>
>> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc M18 JN [Radeon Mobility 9800] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe0000000/28, 0xfcff0000/16, I/O @ 0xc000/8, BIOS @ 0x80000000/17
>>
>> and
>>
>> (--) Chipset ATI Radeon Mobility 9800 (M18) JN (AGP) found
>>
>> Thus far (up through 6.9.0) only 2-D acceleration has been available. Can
>> anyone tell me whether 3-D acceleration is supported for this card under
>> X.org 7.2?
>
> From 'man radeon':
>
> R350 Radeon 9800PRO/9800SE/9800, FireGL X2 (2D only)
> [...]
> R420 Radeon X800 AGP (2d only)
>
>It's the same situation as with X.org 6.9.
Sigh. Okay. Thanks for the information and for the quick response.
I guess then there's no strong incentive for me to move to X.org 7.2 until
6.3-RELEASE happens.
>Perhaps you can get the new fglrx-driver which ATi released recently to
>run on your system ;-)
>
Thank you for that heads up. The last time I had checked (about two
or three weeks ago, I think) that one wasn't yet on their web site. I had
the previous one and had tried it on X.org 6.8.something-or-other, but that
was under 5.4-RELEASE, which didn't make a /dev/dri/card0 device file at
boot time, so the 3-D acceleration ended up disabled anyway. I'll give the
new one a shot under 6.2-STABLE with X.org 6.9.0 and see what happens.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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