From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 23:17:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDA816A46D for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:17:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.145.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3B713C46A for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:17:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l55NGX2u008071; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:16:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:16:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200706052316.l55NGXZW008070@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: pj@smo.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 7.2 and Radeon question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:17:08 -0000 On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:20:05 +0200 Philipp Ost wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> My Dell Inspiron XPS has a graphics card identified at boot time as >> >> drm0: 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 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************