From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 15:22:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B0216A41A for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:22:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@anholt.net) Received: from vonnegut.anholt.net (69-30-77-85.dq1sn.easystreet.com [69.30.77.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F238C13C45D for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@anholt.net) Received: from vonnegut.anholt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vonnegut.anholt.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6NFAgK3002275; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:11:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from eric@anholt.net) Received: (from anholt@localhost) by vonnegut.anholt.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6NF8bq3002267; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:08:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@anholt.net) X-Authentication-Warning: vonnegut.anholt.net: anholt set sender to eric@anholt.net using -f From: Eric Anholt To: Arne Schwabe In-Reply-To: <46A4C088.7040903@uni-paderborn.de> References: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net> <18084.40711.665845.826349@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A4BC5E.6080006@uni-paderborn.de> <18084.48565.688142.945366@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A4C088.7040903@uni-paderborn.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-uqXCrKa0hD38ZSiFeudS" Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:08:19 -0700 Message-Id: <1185203299.2146.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: Rui Paulo , Andrew Gallatin , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:22:18 -0000 --=-uqXCrKa0hD38ZSiFeudS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 16:51 +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote: > > That's an option, but I was initially reluctant to touch > > my internal disk. I'm also somewhat upset that the machine > > can boot BSD or Linux only from an internal drive. If I were > > to convert it to FreeBSD, then I'd be totally hosed when the internal > > drive dies (its really buried in an iMac). > > > > =20 > With working EFI support it should be possible. > > At any rate before I touch the internal disk, which GPU are you having > > problems with? This box has a Radeon X1600. I've heard something > > about ATI building their drivers with linux libs statically linked > > in. Is that the problem? Is there no X.org driver. > > > > =20 > Ati X1600. Works only in Vesa only for me, which means 1152x768 max > resolution on my 1440x900 screen, which is quite suboptimal. If you grab the reverse-engineered xf86-video-avivo driver from xorg, that will at least get you native modesetting, even if it doesn't get you hardware acceleration. --=20 Eric Anholt anholt@FreeBSD.org eric@anholt.net eric.anholt@intel.com --=-uqXCrKa0hD38ZSiFeudS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGpMRjHUdvYGzw6vcRAmxPAJ43edcVKp3127kRA//GA4BlVdxa3QCdGjPy RcX8zsWQVT7l9FKWh4BRu5I= =kCgt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uqXCrKa0hD38ZSiFeudS--