What can I help Chris?

Rene Ladan r.c.ladan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 10:31:53 UTC 2007


Alex Povolotsky schreef:
> Rene Ladan wrote:
>> Alex Povolotsky schreef:
>>  
>>> Janvier Pang wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm so glad to hear from your website ( http://www.fglrx-freebsd.com/ )
>>>> that the fglrx on FreeBSD is still alive, and you mention that Chris
>>>> needs
>>>> to help.
>>>>
>>>> I have a laptop (Acer Aspire 5101) with ATI Mobility Radeon X1300,
>>>> and it
>>>> works well under Linux with the ATI native linux driver from 8.29.6 -
>>>> 8.33.6.
>>>> I'd like to help Chirs to port the fglrx driver to FreeBSD, but I
>>>> don't know
>>>> how and what can I help him.
>>>>
>>>> I know how to program but I'm not familiar with C programming under
>>>> freebsd
>>>> platform, but I've learned C programming under windows platform
>>>> before, and
>>>> I'm using Java in my most time now. I hope that there is anything I
>>>> can help
>>>> to port the fglrx to FreeBSD so that I needn't work under linux
>>>> anymore.
>>>>       
>>> Quite similar, but I have experience with C, and I have Lenovo R60 with
>>> radeon mobility X1400
>>>
>>>     
>> I did some quick experiments on my Asus A6JE (ATI X1450), the results
>> can be found at
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2007-Feburary/003605.html
>>
>> (short story : only VESA till now)
>>   
> 
> 1. Document not found
> 
Sorry, mistyped 'February'

> 2. VESA is not a trick, it works out of the box, does not allow
> fullscreen. Actually, fullscreen video is the only thing I really miss.
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 

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