Enable Some DRI Support for Radeon HD 4850

[Andriy Gapon]

on 20/01/2012 00:46 Jason C. Wells said the following:
> My video card is a radeon HD 4850 which would use the r600_dri.so
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> module, if one was installed.  The fallback module is swrast_dri.so.  I
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> am using the radeon driver in xorg.conf.  Running 8.2-RELEASE with
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> mostly 8.2-R ports.
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> Is there a way that I can get _some_ 3D hardware support?  I don't need
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> it to be perfect.  I'd like celestia to run a bit faster than dog slow.
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> Perhaps I can manually force a module that somewhat supports the HD 4850.
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> I tried faking out the automagic system by 'ln -s r300_dri.so
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> r600_dri.so' but that didn't work.  r300 was unable to identify the chip
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> and so fallback to the swrast_dri.so module occurred.
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> I've looked into updating graphics/dri to 7.11.2, but that is turning
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> out to be an effort in tracking down and tweaking a lot of dependencies.
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Google for "xorg-dev" and FreeBSD, that repository has more modern versions of
many X-related ports.

-- 
Andriy Gapon