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[Eric Anholt]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 16:51 +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> > That's an option, but I was initially reluctant to touch
> > my internal disk.  I'm also somewhat upset that the machine
> > can boot BSD or Linux only from an internal drive.  If I were
> > to convert it to FreeBSD, then I'd be totally hosed when the internal
> > drive dies (its really buried in an iMac).
> >
> >   
> With working EFI support it should be possible.
> > At any rate before I touch the internal disk, which GPU are you having
> > problems with?  This box has a Radeon X1600.  I've heard something
> > about ATI building their drivers with linux libs statically linked
> > in.  Is that the problem?  Is there no X.org driver.
> >
> >   
> Ati X1600. Works only in Vesa only for me, which means 1152x768 max
> resolution on my 1440x900 screen, which is quite suboptimal.

If you grab the reverse-engineered xf86-video-avivo driver from xorg,
that will at least get you native modesetting, even if it doesn't get
you hardware acceleration.

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

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