Using -current on a Fujitsu Lifebook N5010 (no Atheros 802.11, no Ethernet, + hard freezes)

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 23:32, Jake Hamby wrote:
> 5) DRI is not working.
> 
> This laptop has a Radeon Mobility 9600 (M10) NP chip (ChipID = 0x4e50),
> which runs XFree86 using the vesa driver, or with the radeon driver in
> the XFree86 4.3.99.15 snapshot, which gives me this error:
> 
> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 9500/9700
> and newer cards
> 
> I get no error when loading the radeon kernel module, but no output
> either, and no drm0 message in dmesg.  Is there any possibility that the
> 9600 will be supported by a future version of XFree86?  I have already
> written ATI suggesting they release a FreeBSD version of their
> proprietary Linux driver, but they probably won't.

No r300-series (9500+) Radeons are supported by open-source DRI
drivers.  Though there's certainly enough will in the community to do
it, I'd say, ATI is not yet releasing documentation for these chipsets.

ATI has said that they'd work with a FreeBSD developer to help get the
driver ported, but I don't know anybody with the motivation to do it.

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