Hardware graphics
Micah
micahjon at ywave.com
Fri Dec 30 09:05:24 PST 2005
Jon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need some help getting hardware graphics going. I
> built radeon.ko and drm.ko from drm cvs and loaded
> them, a quick dmesg drm says the modules are loaded.
> (drm 1.21.0 20051229) I was told on here I would need
> the r300 DRI module for my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro which I
> got from the FreeBSD Ports 'dri-6.2.20050719,1', that
> built and installed r300_dri.so. I'm using
> radeon_drv.o in my Xorg.conf file as the display
> driver, I had a look at my Xorg.conf Log file and it
> says:
> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering not yet supported on
> Radeon 9500 and newer
> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on
> Radeon 9500/9700 and newer.
> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
>
> What else could be the problem?
> -- Thanks
> FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE
I haven't tried it yet on my r300 based card, so I don't know if it will
actually work. I think I read that you need to specify r300 as you xorg
driver, not radeon. Radeon is the driver for older radeon cards, r300 is
the driver for newer radeon cards.
HTH,
Micah
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