OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Thomas T. Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net
Mon Jun 16 07:28:49 PDT 2003
Yes they are. They are DRM drivers exactly for this purpose. There is a
section further down the page that references this:
"Getting 3d acceleration to work"
Tom Veldhouse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk at wam.umd.edu>
To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net>
Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
> Those drivers are not for 3D support. Those are for getting things like TV
> out on laptops and cards that have it to work.
>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
> > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php
> >
> > The binary drivers do not work, presumably because they were compiled
with
> > gcc-2.95.2? I think the modules for X (not the kernel modules) are
supposed
> > to be portable between platforms (i.e. Linux and FreeBSD). However, you
can
> > CVS source and try to build from there, but I have had no luck as I have
not
> > been able to login:
> >
> > [veldy at fuggle ati]$
> > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gatos login
> > Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/gatos
> > CVS password:
> > cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
any)
> >
> > I have the drivers working great under Linux using Gentoo ... but I
would
> > like my workstation to be FreeBSD for the obvious reason ... but I need
> > accellerated OpenGL support.
> >
> > Tom Veldhouse
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk at wam.umd.edu>
> > To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net>
> > Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
> >
> >
> > > You actually found a site that had drivers for FreeBSD? I was under
the
> > > impression that such a thing didn't exist. Basically this card has no
3d
> > > acceleration support in FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > >
> > > > This weekend I installed KDE and noticed that the OpenGL screen
savers
> > were
> > > > incredibly slow. It is clear that the graphic accelleration
provided by
> > my
> > > > ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card is not being used. I found a site
that
> > had
> > > > drivers apparently for FreeBSD, but it didn't seem to work. I am
> > running
> > > > FreeBSD 5.1. Are there adequate drivers out there to support this?
> > > >
> > > > Tom Veldhouse
> > > >
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