Support for ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 ?

tenebrae tenebrae at thcproductions.com
Sun Nov 21 11:47:05 PST 2004


Dave Cantrell wrote:

>Despite having searched the various mail lists, and googled my eyes bleary, I 
>still have not found what I take to be the definitive answer to the following 
>question:
>
>Does FreeBSD (5-Stable specifically) and/or xorg support the 128MB ATI 
>Mobility Radeon 9700 card yet?
>
>If not, are there plans to do so and is there any sort of time line for this?
>

Yes, indeed it does.  I'm dual-booting FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE and W*ndows 
on my Dell Inspiron XPS, and though I initially used an xorg.conf from a 
"penguinista" (ie. linux) XPS site, I found slightly better results from 
running xorgcfg.  It set the "radeon" driver and defaulted to 1920x1200, 
which is the native resolution for my LCD, though only 2D graphics are 
currently supported.  HTH.
     -W





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