Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:31:44 +0200 From: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3d acceleration support for ATI or other Message-ID: <46BC3E90.9030405@smo.de> In-Reply-To: <20070810133209.0d0eb77d@localhost> References: <2C7306E2-C583-4F2A-A7CB-CE8308E8BB90@istop.com> <20070810133209.0d0eb77d@localhost>
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Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:29:29 -0400 > Ean Kingston <ean@istop.com> wrote: > > >> [snipped] I found >>some old information online indicating that AMD would be releasing >>proprietary drivers for it to support the 3d acceleration. I can't >>find them. Any recent updates on this front? IIRC they released a new version some time ago. You can find it here <http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html>; Unfortunatly the driver is only for Linux, but there is/was an attempt to port this driver to FreeBSD (not by ATi though...). > [snipped] > OTOH, you can check xorg 7.2 support for 3d cards - if I understand it > correctly, the 9550 is part of the r300 driver [url snipped]. That's right, but the X.org radeon driver only supports 3D acceleration up to the rv280. See 'man radeon' for more details ;-) HTH, Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj
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