Re: ATI on FreeBSD! FireGL Linux Driver Port

From: Eric Anholt <eta_at_lclark.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:22:46 -0800
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:10 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> On Mon 26 Dec 05 22:30, Chris Gilbert <Chris_at_lainos.org> wrote:
> > Sure!
> >
> > Below is a support list based on what ATI reports the driver
> > supports.
> >
> > Everything here should work as advertised, but to be sure, if you
> > have success with a particular card then let me know and I'll mark
> > the support as confirmed.
> >
> > It supports: (Put into a sane order, as opposed to what is on the ATI
> > site)
> <snip>
> > Radeon® 9600 series
> 
> I have an ATI Radeon 9600XT, and I'm proud to report it's been working 
> for the last hour with no problems. I can live without the 3D 
> acceleration in FreeBSD, but 2D acceleration helps significantly. 
> Finally using my card's memory instead of the system's.

Hmm.  X.Org should be supporting the same 2d acceleration for 9600s as
fglrx.  Was that not the case?

-- 
Eric Anholt                                     eta_at_lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt_at_FreeBSD.org

Received on Tue Dec 27 2005 - 06:23:13 UTC

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