Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7

[Jacques Fourie]

I tried the radeon driver but somehow couldn't get it to work. If I
start X the screen displays some strange looking artifacts :). I'll
give it another go - I'll definitely prefer running the radeon driver
if possible.

Jacques
>
>  The x700 is supported by the 'radeon' driver, including 3D (good
>  enough to run compiz) and Xvideo.  I currently use that on this
>  machine.  Did you try that driver?
>
>  Adam
>
>
>
>  On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:35:39 +0200
>  "Jacques Fourie" <jacques.fourie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I have a HP/Compaq nw8240 notebook that has an ATI Mobility Radeon
>  > X700 chipset. I couldn't find any X11 drivers (except vesa) that works
>  > with this chipset and the previous fglrx-on-freebsd effort does not
>  > have support for the later Xorg versions such as the one found in
>  > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Luckily I managed to get the latest driver for
>  > Linux to work - no 3D acceleration but 2D and Xvideo works fine. I can
>  > now work at 1920x1200 and use mplayer in fullscreen mode so I'm happy.
>  > If anyone is interested let me know and I'll post instructions on how
>  > to accomplish this. It is relatively simple - I had to create a simple
>  > wrapper that allows the FreeBSD Xorg to load the Linux driver with the
>  > help of libmap.conf.
>  >
>  > regards,
>  > Jacques
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