Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:53:25 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick <dan@covad.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: dan@mist.nodomain Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Message-ID: <200311090553.hA95rPD1000673@mist.nodomain>
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Craig StJean wrote: > > I know that hardware acceleration for the Radeon 9800 Pro is unsupported > (at least officially). What do I need to get it to work? What would you do with Radeon 9800 Pro hardware acceleration under XFree86 if you had it? (Just curious. I would expect that the card would work well enough for 99% of mundane window management without special hardware acceleration. Do you have a particular X11 feature extension in mind?) I have no experience with the 9800 myself. Since you are not the first person to ask about it in the FreeBSD mailing lists, there must be at least a few other FreeBSD 9800 users out there somewhere. You might search the mailing list archives. I recall a lot more questions than answers. Check out http://www.xfree86.org. The next major release, 4.4.0, is currently planned for mid December. I don't know how well it supports the Radeon 9800. You might try downloading a recent development "experimental source" snapshot and investigate it. Possibly it contains documentation on the current capabilities of the Radeon driver. Dan Strick strick@covad.net
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