Xorg 6.9.0, FreeBSD-6.1 and a Radeon or two

[Eric Anholt]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:46 +0100, Matt Dawson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I suspect this has been done to death. RingTFM and Google, however, seem not 
> to be my friends at the moment. I have the following R300 cards:
> 
> Radeon 9800 non pro, 128 bit bus, eight pipelines, 256MB memory;
> Radeon 9700 non pro, used to be a 9500 with four pipes disabled but the 
> hardware mod (I have SMT rework kit) and a BIOS flash soon put a stop to that 
> nonsense, now eight pipes, 256bit bus, 128MB memory.

Unfortunately, R300 (in particular, though others are affected as well)
stability will be bad until we move to the current Radeon driver, which
requires Xorg modular or extreme evil to make it build against
monolithic.  New DRI driver and DRM also required -- we've got the DRM
in -current, so far.

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
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