From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 00:46:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC5F16A403; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:46:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C7413C468; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2F0kcoA033498 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:16:43 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: David Malone Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:16:34 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070312184007.GA49875@kierun.org> <200703132003.41326.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070313125120.GA94557@maccullagh.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20070313125120.GA94557@maccullagh.maths.tcd.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1463656.GflPBnmud6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703151116.35911.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.276 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Stanislav Sedov , support@fglrx-freebsd.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and ATI card query. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:46:59 -0000 --nextPart1463656.GflPBnmud6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 13 March 2007 23:21, David Malone wrote: > I then tried to get a newer version working, but the fglrx_drv.so > from newer ATI releases are linked against a whole bunch of crud > (libstdc++, libgcc_s, ....). I tried fudging the linker to make it > load the FreeBSD versions of these, which got me a bit further, but > the Linux versions of these libraries were too different for me to > be able to get them to work. I think this is what I saw. Such a PITA :( So much for the platform independent promise of the driver architecture. > The drivers for xorg 6.8.0 looked a little more promising as they > weren't linked against so many other libraries. However, I gave up > before building a 6.8.0 server and used the vesa driver. Heh, I wouldn't mind VESA except my LCD monitor's native resolution is=20 1680x1050 and I can't get X to do it. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1463656.GflPBnmud6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF+Jdr5ZPcIHs/zowRAn+fAJ0TbUThnN3qEukwO7xdErkO3FZ/pgCffSk2 NqZSkWYofY9HpD38yi6kVjU= =lgxL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1463656.GflPBnmud6--