Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:06:31 -0500 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <akirchhoff135014@comcast.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enable Some DRI Support for Radeon HD 4850 Message-ID: <4F18A1F7.80303@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4F189137.4020503@speakeasy.net> References: <4F189137.4020503@speakeasy.net>
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On 01/19/12 16:55, Jason C. Wells wrote: > My video card is a radeon HD 4850 which would use the r600_dri.so > module, if one was installed. The fallback module is swrast_dri.so. > I am using the radeon driver in xorg.conf. Running 8.2-RELEASE with > mostly 8.2-R ports. > > Is there a way that I can get _some_ 3D hardware support? I don't > need it to be perfect. I'd like celestia to run a bit faster than dog > slow. Perhaps I can manually force a module that somewhat supports the > HD 4850. > > I tried faking out the automagic system by 'ln -s r300_dri.so > r600_dri.so' but that didn't work. r300 was unable to identify the > chip and so fallback to the swrast_dri.so module occurred. > > I've looked into updating graphics/dri to 7.11.2, but that is turning > out to be an effort in tracking down and tweaking a lot of dependencies. > > Thanks, > Jason C. Wells > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You just need to set WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=yes in /etc/make.conf and (re)build mesa, libdrm, and libGL. Adam
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