Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:08:19 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> To: Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <1185203299.2146.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <46A4C088.7040903@uni-paderborn.de> References: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net> <18084.40711.665845.826349@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A4BC5E.6080006@uni-paderborn.de> <18084.48565.688142.945366@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A4C088.7040903@uni-paderborn.de>
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--=-uqXCrKa0hD38ZSiFeudS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 16:51 +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote: > > That's an option, but I was initially reluctant to touch > > my internal disk. I'm also somewhat upset that the machine > > can boot BSD or Linux only from an internal drive. If I were > > to convert it to FreeBSD, then I'd be totally hosed when the internal > > drive dies (its really buried in an iMac). > > > > =20 > With working EFI support it should be possible. > > At any rate before I touch the internal disk, which GPU are you having > > problems with? This box has a Radeon X1600. I've heard something > > about ATI building their drivers with linux libs statically linked > > in. Is that the problem? Is there no X.org driver. > > > > =20 > Ati X1600. Works only in Vesa only for me, which means 1152x768 max > resolution on my 1440x900 screen, which is quite suboptimal. If you grab the reverse-engineered xf86-video-avivo driver from xorg, that will at least get you native modesetting, even if it doesn't get you hardware acceleration. --=20 Eric Anholt anholt@FreeBSD.org eric@anholt.net eric.anholt@intel.com --=-uqXCrKa0hD38ZSiFeudS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGpMRjHUdvYGzw6vcRAmxPAJ43edcVKp3127kRA//GA4BlVdxa3QCdGjPy RcX8zsWQVT7l9FKWh4BRu5I= =kCgt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uqXCrKa0hD38ZSiFeudS--
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