On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0400, Scott McEachern wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > I tried the new driver you suggested and with light testing it works > quite well. > > For "standard" apps (firefox, thunderbird, amarok), and mplayer with > regular def and HD it's just fine. mplayer with 1080p is slow, but > since I only have a handful of vids at that resolution, I'm not too > concerned. > > In other words, it's good enough and I'm far better off than I was > yesterday, so thank-you very much for your suggestion! :D Later, I > might give 6.14.1 a shot just for giggles. >
Cool beans, HD video uses CPU to decode, no GPU offloading on OpenBSD. Yeah, it seems there is still some work that needs to go into the kernel and Xorg/Mesa for 3D graphics and modesetting on newer cards. The Mobility/Radeon HD 4xxx are latest cards the kernel radeondrm driver can support at the moment, at least for 2D/Xv. Radeon HD 5000+ are different beasts and only support KMS, some "Mobility" cards may be rebranded/modified 4xxx chips though and might work with patches. -Bryan.
