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Date:      Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:47:42 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch>
To:        Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] Experimental 3D HW accel support for Radeon HD 2xxx,  3xxx and 4xxx.
Message-ID:  <b649e5e0912060847i4e788709q5076415719d5937b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1260108237.2315.259.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
References:  <20091205080133.GA87230@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <1260108237.2315.259.camel@balrog.2hip.net>

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On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 15:03, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 10:01 +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:42:43AM +0900, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
>> > Hi Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx users!
>> >
>> > =A0 =A0 I'm ready to update ports related Mesa3D to 7.6 base, graphics=
/dri,
>> > =A0 =A0 graphics/libGL*, graphics/libglut, graphics/mesa-demos and
>> > =A0 =A0 graphics/libdrm. =A0Please see also my attached patch file. =
=A0I'll
>> > =A0 =A0 update these as soon as tomorrow.
>> >
>> > =A0 =A0 Mesa3D 7.6 supports experimental r600 driver, as known as AMD
>> > =A0 =A0 R6xx/R7xx architecture. =A0I confirmed that it's good works, b=
ut
>> > =A0 =A0 buggy on my Radeon HD 4850 environment with 9-current/amd64 an=
d
>> > =A0 =A0 xf86-video-radeonhd-devel. =A0Please see also [I known problem=
]
>> > =A0 =A0 section.
>> I use similiar setup(but with mesa git master) for more than a month
>> without a problem. HD 3650 AGP. glxgear, other demos and even some old
>> games in wine like deusex work fine.
>
> Openarena, UT, vdrift, nexuiz, etc... should all work fairly well also.
> There are still features that are not yet implemented on r600, but I
> tend to run all of the above all video options enabled on highest
> settings. =A0Really large textures are slow and it seems like I found one
> option that really hurt performance (bloom maybe), but otherwise they
> are all more than playable on my HD4650 core2duo e7400.
>
> Disclaimer: I'm not a gamer... but I do use them for testing.
>
> robert.

One thing I know is interesting for many people is playing World of
Warcraft under wine. Last time I checked it wasn't even possible under
linux with catalyst. Do you know anything about this or have tried it?



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