freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so

[Christof Schulze]

> The situation is heavily unsatisfying, since one need an expensive
> AMD/ATi Radeon card to gain non-3D poor functionality, where a cheaper
> one should be do the same - but the cheaper ones don't work. Even if one
> uses AMD64, the situattion is worse and I have no reason using
> Linux-driver on a FreeBSD box. Hope the situation gets cleared in the
> nearest future. It's a kind of deadlock. As I said, either spenig a lot
> of money for a working RV770 based AMD graphics card with poor
> functionality or nothing so far, since most smaller RV730 chips aren't
> supported properly by the most recent drivers.
To be fair - my ATI X300 has always worked. It is a cheap card with low-end 
performance but it is perfectly fine for regular desktop-use.

Christof

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