Hi

[Ken Gunderson]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:23:52 -0400
Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:

> Ethereal mind wrote:
> > Frank S. wrote:
> > 
> >>> Hi I want to start using freebsd, and i'm not sure if it will work on 
> >>> my system, I have a asus A8V-E Deluxe motherboard and Ati pci expres 
> >>> video card X700 Pro.
> >>> thank you  Frank
> >>>  
> >>>  
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have almost the same system, but with an X600 card.  It works fine
> >> with the exception of the on-board network controllers.  As long as
> >> you're willing to drop in an alternate network card, it's a very
> >> good board.
> >>
> >> Scott
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> > Do you have your video card working? I mean graphic acceleration.
> > 
> 
> No.  Apparently the latest X11 DRI/DRM code will work with an AGP R3xx 
> card, but not a PCI-E R3xx card.  I don't know the status beyond that.

Good toknow.  Per the radeon manpage
<http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/radeon.4.html> pcie falls back to pci:

PCIE -- PCI Express (falls back to PCI at present)
(used only when DRI is enabled) 

So I took that to mean that DRI worked....

-- 
Best regards,

Ken Gunderson

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