Brett wrote: > I could not find any info on the openbsd site or mailing list > on how to do this, except for radeon(4) man page, and this posting (for > a different radeon card):
It's not documented because it's not officially supported, it's replacing a shipped component with something that's newer.. > 1) Do the lines above in the dmesg indicate this driver is already > installed on my system? If so, is compiling a new driver likely to > result in, for example, less frame dropping in mplayer fullscreen mode? The kernel support is for DRM/DRI support without KMS, modesetting and device initialization isn't done by the kernel. The driver mentioned in this thread is the userland Xorg driver, the verion shipped lacks features and stability on some newer cards.. in your case it will add Textured XVideo support. > 2) Is this where I should get the code from?: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati You could, however that is the main development repository.. the source there does not have any generated configure script. You'll probably want to get it from here instead: http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.14.2.tar.gz > 3) Once compiled (using the configure options at the top of this email), > is there some other configuration changes I need to make to the system, > so this driver will load when I boot computer or startx? No, the X server should just load the new module.. you don't even have to reboot your system. > 4) Is there any sites that I missed where this is already explained? ... -Bryan.
