From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 22:55:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15C8106566C for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:55:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE34E8FC14 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so14314041iak.13 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:55:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Oy+OAdHT8R1q1/ucDrjznUsNkSsSBkS//2viDchqLQY=; b=WcfDmIY57pxdwfTbQvhSf1A9sdbuuMHzvjLCbIZgMspJukX8z6o3uK3FAyDsoo2Qty 7elrCp+0Gn1S7lli0SdJVvgPCsdnif/33pi4XsWKXqB8+Nizewq7lrn652TlcNecxT+L pb45TX5OUECtWRMO3w+rHJHX3yZK2JCPUkrJo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.150.135 with SMTP id a7mr25862026icw.53.1322520947052; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:55:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.46.198 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:55:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111128123915.540564b1@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20111128092008.GA58668@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20111128123915.540564b1@ernst.jennejohn.org> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:55:46 -0800 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: suggested xorg-compatible video HW for FreeBSD/amd64 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:55:48 -0000 On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > As to ATI - I don't think that either radeonhd or the ati driver support > these newer chips, but I could be wrong. =A0I'm running radeonhd but I > have integrated graphics based on the older ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics > controller. > > -- > Gary Jennejohn Just a quick reminder as it seems to be forgotten too often...radeonhd has not been supported or updated in a long time and is generally a bad choice. Modern Radeon (4xxx) is supported much better with the ati driver which is still getting some love. Since Radeon is open-source, you might expect good support, but it also depends on kernel mode setting and requires custom KMS DRI code in the kernel which I am not sure anyone is working on for FreeBSD. Maybe when the Intel KMS is completed... --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com