From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 16:00:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA443106566B for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 16:00:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacques.fourie@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092398FC23 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 16:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacques.fourie@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so810173wfa.7 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 09:00:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=MPXR2iwJSLAdiIvsJk3SsEldjrOTH0hXC3fLLpM4Kws=; b=KPsKQqDZoOz8Ky3Z7H33wgSEsJTeXZ+9I8FcOoNVGejo5/F1Knza49l5DoQKp06Y/HUFyBJaQ3eKt4Na2qhU9d7xi0ZtopxRb3g+LHNdX71VnJcvwPm9bYuNG/U9YPHzw9DoouEz2hvUKGDICudiGQ+aevSES3G5MK7kZ1J+2Yg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=IpTVNcaD1sMjcig6B3s/gwTajuW0cJNAZrtNJGsT22rPVVVt/dI+H3Ub9/YPUG4cYfgoMfsYHFDkkqYTZ4jyOpOhC7XhrvNEWn8RlKnCxNOuCj4s+EYkGjRrTvW4Lahtl4QGlWRhEY0r+BHdmnc/J9+mDyeA8zM0cSH428uUyx4= Received: by 10.142.127.10 with SMTP id z10mr839194wfc.216.1209656139606; Thu, 01 May 2008 08:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.204.7 with HTTP; Thu, 1 May 2008 08:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:35:39 +0200 From: "Jacques Fourie" To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 16:00:18 -0000 Hi, I have a HP/Compaq nw8240 notebook that has an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 chipset. I couldn't find any X11 drivers (except vesa) that works with this chipset and the previous fglrx-on-freebsd effort does not have support for the later Xorg versions such as the one found in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Luckily I managed to get the latest driver for Linux to work - no 3D acceleration but 2D and Xvideo works fine. I can now work at 1920x1200 and use mplayer in fullscreen mode so I'm happy. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll post instructions on how to accomplish this. It is relatively simple - I had to create a simple wrapper that allows the FreeBSD Xorg to load the Linux driver with the help of libmap.conf. regards, Jacques