Re: fglrx ATI driver

From: Alain Hebert <ahebert_at_pubnix.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:25:29 -0400
    Hi,

    Can I make a suggestion?  (Don't wanna start a flame war, just my 
opinion)

    Drop ATI for nVidia.

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    I was using and yes, hooked, on ATI since their VGA Wonder and more 
with their 8514 compatible card
    (for which I found a way to make it work with X11R4 btw, dont know 
if its still there ... lookup aal_at_broue.rot.qc.ca).

    But ATI close/limited access/"got snob" the developer channels and 
stop providing documentation under the excuse that its propriatory 
informations (yeah sure... come on).

    So my ATI contacts dried up, no way to get a NDA to get that 
documentation, and even then, there is no TV documentation, and 3D is 
limited.

    So bye, bye ATI.

-----

    I got a nVidia 6600 and since nVidia support FreeBSD natively its a 
breeze.  (With 3D!)

    Now TV is coming from a low cost bktr card and I'm happy.

Neil Short wrote:

>Has anybody had success with the fglrx driver?
>I had some difficulty building it since the qt33 port
>is hiccupping and this build tries to add a KDE icon -
>but I don't use KDE.
>
>doing:
>X -configure
>gives a bunch of lines that say...
>Symbol firegl_PM4Alloc from module
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o is
>unresolved!
>
>My graphics device is detected as:
>"RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
>
>BusID is "PCI:1:5:0"
>
>running FBSD current on Toshiba A105-S301 laptop.
>
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Alain Hebert                                ahebert_at_pubnix.net   
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Received on Fri Apr 07 2006 - 16:25:32 UTC

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