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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:31:34 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        joaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2/3D rendering cards
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, joaoBR wrote:

> Em Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:59:09 +0400
> "Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat@ksu.ru> escreveu:
>
>> joaoBR wrote:
>>> Em Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:13:05 -0600 (MDT)
>>> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> there are, more or less, three opportunities:
>>>>>
>>>>> Nvidia
>>>>> AMD/Ati
>>>>> Intel
>>>>>
>>>>> Nvidia has really good performance using nvidia legacy driver. You
>>>>> have pros and cons (I don't want to start a debate about it) of
>>>>> closed-source. Nvidia using nv has quite poor performance, on
>>>>> Linux as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> AMD/Ati platform has a lack of support on FreeBSD (TTM not fully
>>>>> implemented or something like that). That means no OpenGL hw
>>>>> acceleration.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't this showing OpenGL hardware acceleration?
>>>>
>>>> direct rendering: Yes
>>>> server glx vendor string: SGI
>>>> server glx version string: 1.2
>>>> GLX version: 1.2
>>>> OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>>>> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV730 9498)  TCL
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>
> which xorg version is it? 7.6 ?

xf86-video-ati-6.14.6_1
xorg-7.5.2
xorg-server-1.10.6,1

> because look, with xorg-1.10 I get this:
>
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.4
> client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> GLX version: 1.4
> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3
> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>
> but no direct rendering anymore, rasterizing ...
>
> and you confirm certainly what I answered to Olivier that it was
> working with ATI before xorg ver 7.7

It depends on the card.  Cards up through the 4000 series should be 
supported by the current driver.  This particular one is an HD4650 PCIe, 
but I've also used the HD4850 and had reports of success with either 
4250 or 4350 cards.  Some people have reported 2D acceleration on the 
HD5470.



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