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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2003 20:21:56 +1000
From:      "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>
To:        Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        sandor.renz@ngi.it
Subject:   Re: Hardware supported?
Message-ID:  <200306032021.56856.agh@tpg.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20030603202855.7a313fb4.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com>
References:  <000801c3295c$93343c70$5535b9c2@darkstar> <20030603202855.7a313fb4.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com>

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On Wednesday, 04 June 2003 11:28, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> I don't know about the sun, but the video card should work nicely. It
> should be supported by the drm in the kernel and X should play nicely with
> it.
Well actually the 9700PRO is supported to some extent. And that extent is 2D 
XFree86 only. No DRM as of this time, however, ATI releases binary 
drivers(FireGL) for Linux that provide 3D acceleration for the 9700.

Maybe some kind emails to ATI might get some FreeBSD attention......

-Alastair

> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:13:27 +0200
>
> "Sandor \"fisty\" Renz" <sandor.renz@ngi.it> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > my name is Sandor Renz!
> > ive been using freebsd for some time on a pc now!and now i would like to
> > make it as my main os on my main pc, but i dont know if my video card is
> > supported?i have a Ati radeon 9700pro is this card supported??? another
> > questien i have a SunBlade 100 will the ultrasparc version of FreeBSD
> > work on my workstation? thx in advantage for ur respond:D
> > best regards Sandor Renz
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