Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:19:44 -0500 From: "Nikolay Vernyayev" <nikolay.vernyayev@gmail.com> To: knowtree@aloha.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: VIA video drivers Message-ID: <209bd33f0803311419p10e4f6e4wda413d8c5ddb9568@mail.gmail.com>
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Not exactly... Actually you may use VESA drivers w/o problems but for best performance with VIA you may try to do what I did... Some "magic" dance :) see here<http://nicoec.blogspot.com/2008/02/amilo-pro-v2030-under-freebsd-63-part-i.html>. Actualy I have used Open UniChrome drivers applied and working but stacked in DRI. Here is not really clear procedure, more like investigation story then technical instruction, but you can get part of picture what the hell is it. I am blogging here www.nico.pro.ec ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: knowtree@aloha.com To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:49:12 HST Subject: VIA video drivers This is one of those posts that might not belong in mobile, but since I am developing a mobile solution I'll start here. I have been poking around a VIA support site (www.viaarena.com) and posted a question in the forums about running FreeBSD 7 on the VIA Pico-ITX. Looking through the Linux forum I see a lot of grief about drivers. Especially video drivers. Is anybody here using Xorg on VIA hardware and willing to share their experiences? A more general question: Do Linux video drivers for Xorg automatically work under FreeBSD, or is some black magic involved? Even more general: Can I assume that even without a specially tailored driver, Xorg should achieve fairly high resolution? Well beyond 640x480? Seems like the grief with VIAs drivers is about speed and 3D rendering, especially in the realm of movie playback and game play. Neither is a high priority for me. Battery life is priority one. Any insight will be greatly appreciated! Gary Dunn Open Slate Project
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