Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:55:21 -0500 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: Radeon X1450 supported? Message-ID: <200701121355.22130.adamk@voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: <45A7D1BC.4090607@gmail.com> References: <4586BF6A.9020902@gmail.com> <1168622949.27596.8.camel@memory> <45A7D1BC.4090607@gmail.com>
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On Friday 12 January 2007 13:21, Rene Ladan wrote: > Adam K Kirchhoff schreef: > > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 18:22 +0100, Rene Ladan wrote: > >> Rene Ladan schreef: > >>> Ivan Voras schreef: > >>>> Ren=C3=A9 Ladan wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> I just bought a shiny new Asus A6JE laptop which has a ATI Radeon > >>>>> X1450, but X.org 7.2rc3 does not recognize it. > >>>>> Is there any solution or am I just unlucky :( ? > >>>> > >>>> If it's the same chip(set) generation as 1300, 1600 & 1900 (i.e. R5x= x) > >>>> then AFAIK you're out of luck, and you're not alone :( > >>> > >>> Well, at least VESA works (at 1024 x 768), but VESA means no xv thus = no > >>> full screen mplayer :( > >> > >> The card is a RV515, mplayer works fullscreen with -vo sdl :) > > And add -aspect 6:5 to correct for the 8:5 (display) -> 8:6 (VESA) > resolution change. > > >> I downloaded a binary installer from the ATI website but it only has > >> drivers up to R3xx ? > > > > The binary driver for linux supports r300, r400, r500, and (some) r600 > > cards. > > Hmm, maybe I quit the extraction phase too early. But Linux drivers > aren't going to work on FreeBSD, do they? > I doubt it. Theoretically the Xorg module loader is OS independent. 2D=20 drivers from one x86 OS can be used on any other x86 OS. In theory... In= =20 practice, who knows? :-) I did, briefly, use the 2D open source radeon=20 driver from Debian (using xorg 6.9) on FreeBSD over a year ago. But I've=20 never played with the fglrx driver under FreeBSD. Adam
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