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). > > > > > 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. > > > > > 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. -- Eric Anholt anholt_at_FreeBSD.org eric_at_anholt.net eric.anholt_at_intel.com
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