From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 15:28:47 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 6566116A41F for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:28:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from mail.blinkt.de (mail.blinkt.de [88.198.169.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8A213C458 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:28:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from dslb-084-062-212-221.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.62.212.221] helo=styx.local) by mail.blinkt.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ICzq0-0009GW-Hu; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:28:44 +0200 Message-ID: <46A4C927.5080200@uni-paderborn.de> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:28:39 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anholt 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> <1185203299.2146.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1185203299.2146.2.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:28:47 -0000 Eric Anholt schrieb: > 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). >>> >>> >>> >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> 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. > > Ah nice. I will try if time permits, but at the Moment I set up my workspace under OS X. Arne