Howto: To know whether the 3D accelerator works on my desktop with ATI Radeon 3450.

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sat Aug 15 12:03:42 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 05:53:47PM +0700, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote:
> Dear my friends,
> 
> please tell me how I know whether my FreeBSD can run the 3D Accelerator
> with my current ATI Radeon 3450 graphic card.
 
The Radeon 3450 uses a RV620 chip
[http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/plain/README]. 

The radeonhd driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd) now supports 2D
accelleration for this chip.

3D hardware accelleration support for this chip (and indeed all R6xx chips) is
being worked on, but not ready for prime time. See
[http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd]

The Xorg server falls back to software 3D rendering through Mesa
[http://www.mesa3d.org/]. Depending on your application and CPU power this
might be fast enough.

Roland
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