Any chance of 3d on radeon?

[Ivan Voras]

On 8 May 2010 23:53, Adam K Kirchhoff <akirchhoff135014 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 23:35 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've successfully updated my xorg to 7.5 and everything works ok - DRI
>> is enabled and the whole experience looks faster than before, so a big
>> thanks for that :)
>>
>> I remember reading something about 3D acceleration for Radeons but I
>> don't know what the status is right now; judging from glxinfo, it's not
>> there yet for me:
>>
>>  > glxinfo | grep OpenGL
>> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
>> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.4.4
>> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>>
>> This is on 8-stable, amd64, Radeon 3600 (RV635).
>>
>> Do I just need to wait some more, or have I misconfigured something here?
>
> It's definitely supported on all R100 through R700 GPUs (including
> yours) in 8-stable when using Mesa 7.6.1 from ports.  You're only on
> Mesa 7.4.4.
>
> Make sure you read the relatively recent Mesa entry
> in /usr/ports/UPDATING so you know what knob to set in /etc/make.conf
> and then you can update Mesa and libdrm.

Thank you - now everything works!