Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:28:44 -0500 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Message-ID: <015d01c33413$97cbba80$d037630a@dh.com> References: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0306161024170.26987-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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Yes they are. They are DRM drivers exactly for this purpose. There is a section further down the page that references this: "Getting 3d acceleration to work" Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro > Those drivers are not for 3D support. Those are for getting things like TV > out on laptops and cards that have it to work. > > Ken > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php > > > > The binary drivers do not work, presumably because they were compiled with > > gcc-2.95.2? I think the modules for X (not the kernel modules) are supposed > > to be portable between platforms (i.e. Linux and FreeBSD). However, you can > > CVS source and try to build from there, but I have had no luck as I have not > > been able to login: > > > > [veldy@fuggle ati]$ > > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gatos login > > Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/gatos > > CVS password: > > cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) > > > > I have the drivers working great under Linux using Gentoo ... but I would > > like my workstation to be FreeBSD for the obvious reason ... but I need > > accellerated OpenGL support. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu> > > To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> > > Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:00 AM > > Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro > > > > > > > You actually found a site that had drivers for FreeBSD? I was under the > > > impression that such a thing didn't exist. Basically this card has no 3d > > > acceleration support in FreeBSD. > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > > > > > This weekend I installed KDE and noticed that the OpenGL screen savers > > were > > > > incredibly slow. It is clear that the graphic accelleration provided by > > my > > > > ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card is not being used. I found a site that > > had > > > > drivers apparently for FreeBSD, but it didn't seem to work. I am > > running > > > > FreeBSD 5.1. Are there adequate drivers out there to support this? > > > > > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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