x11/ati-driver

[mr. phreak]

Message: 20
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:05:09 +0200
From: Mathias Picker <Mathias.Picker at gmx.de>
Subject: Re: x11/ati-driver
To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <1191719109.81777.0.camel at 1.strongdesk.com>
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Am Sonntag, den 07.10.2007, 00:54 +0000 schrieb mr. phreak:

> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'm trying to make the ati-fglrx driver work under freebsd-6.2 - 
> > RELEASE. I've had no success. After installing from ports I simply > 'can't find "fglrx" ' from Xorg.0.log.
>   

Where did you get your "fglrx" driver? As far as I know, only the
open-source driver (e.g. x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati, and "ati" in
xorg.conf") exists on freebsd...

Or am I wrong?


>> I got the driver from ports, it's in x11/ati-driver.. So it's there allright. Allthough the
>> homepage seems down or removed, so maybe it's a stale project???? Anyone know?



> > 
> > Is there anyone out there with a successful install of this driver?  Or 
> > perhaps another sollution for making tv-out work for the radeon 
> > 9200-cards? I'm on Xorg 7.2.
>   

The current open-source driver supports xrandr and (at least on my acer
travelmate) video out.

Cheers, Mathias

>> Yeah, i know that, but i still can't get tv-out to work on the radeon 9200. The driver simply
>> won't recognice the second screen. If there are people out there with a successful sollution
>> i'm all ears.


> > 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > J
> > 
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