X questions before installing FreeBSD 7.2

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote:

>     On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:38:52 -0700 (PDT) "David Johnson"
> <david at usermode.org> wrote:
>>>      My questions before getting started later today run like this.
>>>
>>> 	a) What exactly is supported in the version of X.org distributed with
>>> 	   FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE for this Mobility Radeon 9800 card, given the
>>> 	   chip set(s), the screen capabilities, 256 MB on the card, and
>>> 	   anything else you happen to notice in the excerpts above?
>>
>> You only had excerpts from Xorg.log, but xorg-7.4 with Radeon 9800 (using
>> radeon driver) should have hardware acceleration, OpenGL and compositing.
>> You just need to configure your xorg.conf file correctly. The driver for
>> the r300 chipset should be very stable.
>
>     So the r300 driver is the one that supports the R420 chip and its mobile
> equivalent, the M18 chip?

M18 is not mentioned in the radeon man page. 
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon shows the R420/M18 as 
equivalent, but says they are Radeon X800, not 9800.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA