Problems watching video with the Radeon HD 3850

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:53:50PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> First of all I must say I'm impressed by the latest stable freebsd 
> release (7.1). A lot of hardware which didn't  work before now works out 
> of the box :)  I only have problems watching video, it feels sluggish 
> and there frequently runs a stripe through my screen. Which settings 
> (and driver) do I need to use in order solve this? I now use the 
> radeonhd driver. I have a  Radeon HD 3850 (RV670PRO) card . Thanks in 
> advance!

For the best performance, you'll have to update to a recent 7-STABLE, or
wait for the upcoming 7.2 release. The kernel support code for graphics
chips has been updated since the release of 7.1. 

With this update you should get hardware accellerated 2D from you video
card. 3D hardware accelleration for R6xx chips is not complete yet,
AFAIK. The xf86-video-radeonhd driver works best, in my experience.

Roland
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