Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:03:38 -0400 From: Jim <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATi & Intel graphics Message-ID: <80f4f2b20808141103p2cd9f504gf3936904d47f7732@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080813193446.GB11361@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <80f4f2b20808130917k2ddc8a3aj54edd9fe79c83788@mail.gmail.com> <20080813193446.GB11361@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > The last ATI chip with full open-source 3D accelleration support is the > 2950 (RV280), but 3D and accelleration support for newer chips is > actively being worked on. ATI is even going to provide the developers > with documentation (could be that that has happened by now?). Last I heard they got the documentation for card initialization and (I think) power management. No acceleration docs yet. It still came to over 900 pages. Hopefully there's been more since. > The driver that you want for ATI cards is xf86-video-ati. But for the > most features you'll have to compile it yourself from the code in a git > repository. You'll probably need an updated DRM driver as well. ok, it looks like the radeon (no HD) driver is part of the xf86-video-ati driver, and by the size of the ati_drv.so file, I'm guessing most of what ati_drv.so does is access and control the access of radeon_drv, correct? I wonder why there's no cutoff for the 3D functionality in the ATi driver's man page. It just lists all supported cards without mention of which have 3D implementations (try `man radeon`). -Jim Stapleton
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