ATI graphics card on FreeBSD10: Xorg -configure fails (No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol)

Niclas Zeising zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se
Fri Feb 21 12:43:39 UTC 2014


On 02/21/14 13:15, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> On 02/21/14 07:57, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
>>> Regarding WITH_GALLIUM, how would you design such parameters for an installation that could run on a wide variety of computers?
>         
>> The WITH_KMS option was removed some time ago, KMS is now the default
>> with building WITH_NEW_XORG.  With regards to gallium, that had to be
>> made an option, since it brings in heavy dependencies in the form of
>> llvm, which might not be desirable if compiling on slower computers.
>         
>> There are more instructions and information on
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Ports
> 
>> Regards!
> --
>> Niclas
> 
> Probability that I would actually use gallium from my USB-stick installation is really low, so I do best to avoid the unnecessary freight.
> 
> To run on a wide variety of computers, there is the sissy way, namely vesa, to avoid the error-prone attempt to simultaneously optimize for may different systems.

Gallium is needed to get hardware acceleration if you are using ATI
hardware with KMS.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas



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