Enable Some DRI Support for Radeon HD 4850
Jason C. Wells
jcw at speakeasy.net
Thu Jan 19 22:14:00 UTC 2012
My video card is a radeon HD 4850 which would use the r600_dri.so
module, if one was installed. The fallback module is swrast_dri.so. I
am using the radeon driver in xorg.conf. Running 8.2-RELEASE with
mostly 8.2-R ports.
Is there a way that I can get _some_ 3D hardware support? I don't need
it to be perfect. I'd like celestia to run a bit faster than dog slow.
Perhaps I can manually force a module that somewhat supports the HD 4850.
I tried faking out the automagic system by 'ln -s r300_dri.so
r600_dri.so' but that didn't work. r300 was unable to identify the chip
and so fallback to the swrast_dri.so module occurred.
I've looked into updating graphics/dri to 7.11.2, but that is turning
out to be an effort in tracking down and tweaking a lot of dependencies.
Thanks,
Jason C. Wells
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