FreeBSD support for ATI graphics cards

Bartosz Fabianowski freebsd at chillt.de
Fri Mar 11 13:45:37 UTC 2011


> 2D and 3D acceleration is available from the very old 9000-series, to
> the newer X300/600/1600/1900, 2000-, 3000-, and 4000-series.

That said, I suddenly have working 2D acceleration on my Radeon HD 5470. 
I have no idea what changed. I am in the middle of updating several 
hundred ports, including the X bump from 7.5 to 7.5.1 but have *not* 
updated the ATI driver to 6.14.0 yet. I just updated a random subset of 
ports, rebooted because I wanted to flash the BIOS to a newer version - 
and suddenly my desktop is snappy, video playback works at full HD 
resolution. I am quite surprised - in a very positive way.

- Bartosz


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