3d acceleration support for ATI or other

[Philipp Ost]

Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:29:29 -0400
> Ean Kingston <ean at istop.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> [snipped]  I found
>>some old information online indicating that AMD would be releasing  
>>proprietary drivers for it to support the 3d acceleration. I can't  
>>find them. Any recent updates on this front?

IIRC they released a new version some time ago. You can find it here 
<http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html>
Unfortunatly the driver is only for Linux, but there is/was an attempt 
to port this driver to FreeBSD (not by ATi though...).


> [snipped]
> OTOH, you can check xorg 7.2 support for 3d cards - if I understand it 
 > correctly, the 9550 is part of the r300 driver [url snipped].

That's right, but the X.org radeon driver only supports 3D acceleration 
up to the rv280. See 'man radeon' for more details ;-)


HTH,
Philipp

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