Eric Anholt schrieb: > 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. > > Ah nice. I will try if time permits, but at the Moment I set up my workspace under OS X. ArneReceived on Mon Jul 23 2007 - 13:28:47 UTC
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