IBM R51, freebsd 6-stable, X.org 6.9 & direct rendering

[Uwe Laverenz]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:16:19PM +0100, Gregers Petersen wrote:

> has anybody gotten 'direct rendering' to work with an Ati Mobility 9000 
> gpu on a similar centrino platform ??

Yes, I used to run 6-Stable on a ThinkPad R51 with Radeon 9000, and dri
worked perfectly. That was one reason for me to buy the R51.

I remember that with earlier versions of 6-Stable I had to compile the
radeon-drm module directly into the kernel ("device	radeondrm"),
maybe that helps?

Uwe