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[Arne Schwabe]

Eric Anholt schrieb:
> 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.
>
>   
Ah nice. I will try if time permits, but at the Moment I set up my
workspace under OS X.

Arne