From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 01:05:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A3D106568F for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christof.schulze@gmx.com) Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com (mailout-eu.gmx.com [213.165.64.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD3088FC08 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2010 01:05:55 -0000 Received: from e181218153.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO klausdieter0815.dyndns.org) [85.181.218.153] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu003) with SMTP; 10 Feb 2010 02:05:55 +0100 X-Authenticated: #56306756 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+GHVFXLiuGYeFtBFAA2B3L/DugzxRHVPQABpt/ZZ b9qLZPxH2PAput Received: by myhost.mydomain.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 265F298A6; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:03:00 +0100 (CET) From: Christof Schulze To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:02:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.5; amd64; ; ) References: <6101e8c41002091524q25a7e026u585e575eb4f1589c@mail.gmail.com> <4B71FFA8.3070306@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4B71FFA8.3070306@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7626550.6Z1gRQCGa3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002100202.59954.christof.schulze@gmx.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.68000000000000005 Subject: Re: freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so 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: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:05:57 -0000 --nextPart7626550.6Z1gRQCGa3 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > The situation is heavily unsatisfying, since one need an expensive > AMD/ATi Radeon card to gain non-3D poor functionality, where a cheaper > one should be do the same - but the cheaper ones don't work. Even if one > uses AMD64, the situattion is worse and I have no reason using > Linux-driver on a FreeBSD box. Hope the situation gets cleared in the > nearest future. It's a kind of deadlock. As I said, either spenig a lot > of money for a working RV770 based AMD graphics card with poor > functionality or nothing so far, since most smaller RV730 chips aren't > supported properly by the most recent drivers. To be fair - my ATI X300 has always worked. It is a cheap card with low-end= =20 performance but it is perfectly fine for regular desktop-use. Christof =2D-=20 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail=20 /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments --nextPart7626550.6Z1gRQCGa3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAktyBcMACgkQpZfyPAmdZJn+YwCfU6Bz0EHzPVzo5bu5OzIzBFSP wKYAoIkPhydOtrjzLQrA70QZcoHl5P9b =VmIx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7626550.6Z1gRQCGa3--