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[Herminio Hernandez, Jr.]

setting "NoAccel" to "Ture" got my DE working. However I have been able to
get hardware accelerated graphics to work under Linux. I do see why this
cannot happen on FreeBSD. Has anyone been able to KMS and hardware
accelerated graphics working on PowerPC?

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:26:37AM -0700, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> >> Try adding the following line into the card's Section "Device" of
> xorg.conf:
> >>
> >>     Option  "NoAccel" "true"
> >>
> >> I needed to add this option on my PowerBooks, with ATI graphics, using
> >> the xf86-video-ati-ums driver.
> >
> > Speaking of Apple iBooks/PowerBooks, and given than ATI (AMD) cards are
> > currently one of the best supported in post-KMS world, are there chances
> > to get them fully accelerated working in the foreseeable future?
> >
> > ./danfe
>
> I *think* all that's needed is atomic64 emulation.  I had written a
> patch implementing them, but it utterly failed to compile for most
> architectures.  If I didn't have to worry about userspace or the
> opensolaris atomic64 emulation, it wouldn't be too difficult.  Anyone
> else wants a crack at it, feel free.
>
> - Justin
>