OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php

The binary drivers do not work, presumably because they were compiled with
gcc-2.95.2?  I think the modules for X (not the kernel modules) are supposed
to be portable between platforms (i.e. Linux and FreeBSD).  However, you can
CVS source and try to build from there, but I have had no luck as I have not
been able to login:

[veldy at fuggle ati]$
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gatos login
Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/gatos
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

I have the drivers working great under Linux using Gentoo ... but I would
like my workstation to be FreeBSD for the obvious reason ... but I need
accellerated OpenGL support.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk at wam.umd.edu>
To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net>
Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro


> You actually found a site that had drivers for FreeBSD? I was under the
> impression that such a thing didn't exist. Basically this card has no 3d
> acceleration support in FreeBSD.
>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
> > This weekend I installed KDE and noticed that the OpenGL screen savers
were
> > incredibly slow.  It is clear that the graphic accelleration provided by
my
> > ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card is not being used.  I found a site that
had
> > drivers apparently for FreeBSD, but it didn't seem to work.  I am
running
> > FreeBSD 5.1.  Are there adequate drivers out there to support this?
> >
> > Tom Veldhouse
> >
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