On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:07:16AM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > Is there a way to get decent 2d performance with an ATI FireGL 5200? No its based on the Radeon X1600, it has no 2D acceleration core at all, and of course ATI does not release the documentation to write drivers for the 3D bits.
See: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon "All radeons have open source 2D support. Note that R500 series chips (X1300, X1800 etc) do not have a Radeon 2D core, so are only supported by the vesa driver (no acceleration)." > VESA in 1920x1200 is too slow for me. > The ati or radeon drivers give me "(EE) No devices detected.", and the > driver list in /var/log/Xorg.0.log does not show the card. > fglrx is not an option either, right? Hell no, and never will be, unless ATI were to give the source to X.org under the right license. >Porting seems under way for > FreeBSD (http://www.fglrx-freebsd.com/index.php), but I am not sure if > that helps me. Not unless you use FreeBSD, they like blobs we dont. > /Allan
