From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 19:50:56 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 74F71106568A for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:50:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from spamfish.visualtech.com (h-67-102-187-40.phlapafg.covad.net [67.102.187.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CBE8FC1B for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:50:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from mailstore.visualtech.com (h-67-102-187-41.phlapafg.covad.net [67.102.187.41]) by spamfish.visualtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 080841F4314; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:32:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sorrow.ashke.com (c-68-32-29-130.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [68.32.29.130]) by mailstore.visualtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B7DADC17F; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:34:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam K Kirchhoff To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:33:00 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (FreeBSD/7.0-STABLE; KDE/4.1.1; i386; ; ) References: <19885135.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <19885135.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200810081533.00805.adamk@voicenet.com> X-visualtech-MailScanner: Found to be clean Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: SammyG Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:50:56 -0000 On Wednesday 08 October 2008 14:54:08 SammyG wrote: > Jacques Fourie-2 wrote: > > 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. > > This is a bit late, but I would be very grateful to know. I'm a complete > novice to Unix-like operating systems and trying to make 2d-accleration > work for my Radeon 9600 & P4P800 board on FreeBSD 7.0-Release. Since my > eyes can't stand tearing, I was thinking about switching to Linux... > I don't know if this will help, but I also had some arifacts(though quite > different from yours) and I somehow managed to remove them by setting the > right horizontal&vertial refresh rates values for my monitor in xorgconfig > tool, at least for 1024x768 mode. I didn't have to manually add or remove > any kernel modules in xorg.conf or /boot/loader.conf. Unfortunately, the > open-source generic radeon driver doesn't seem to support 2d-accleration... That is not the case at all. The radeon driver supports 2D acceleration (and 3D acceleration) on all r100 through r500 cards these days. Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.