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[Justin Hibbits]

Not yet on FreeBSD.  It's on my TODO list, but other things keep
cropping up at higher priority. DRI1 'sort of' worked, on some
versions, with specific Mesa and X versions, on some hardware, but
mostly failed quite miserably.

- Justin

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
<herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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