RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Huff
Sean Cavanaugh writes: AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a news article iI came across they were actually hiring a whole new department whose sole purpose was to add more of the older cards to the open sorce

RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-27 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd;a=summary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: 27 June 2008 14:59 To: Sean Cavanaugh Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 3D for

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 Ben Kaduk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD

RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-26 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
fglrx is the only way that anyone's going to get true 3D OpenGL support, and the last time I checked that wasn't available except for ancient cards on FreeBSD. AMD was supposed to be helping ATI, but it appears that after the merger all that's happened is a website change and ATI's drivers

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-26 Thread George Hartzell
Mike Meyer writes: [...] I'm not sure those are the drivers Theierry wants. The proprietary driver was called fglrx, not radeon or radeonhd. Those two drivers have been in the X open source trees for quite a while now. I first started using the radeon driver on amd64 in late 2006. The

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Ben Kaduk
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ? Well, I'm using radeonhd right now on a [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit : On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ? Well, I'm using

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Ben Kaduk
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit : On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD drivers (and the

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 Ben Kaduk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ?

3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-24 Thread Thierry Herbelot
[CC trimmed] Le Tuesday 24 June 2008, Garrett Cooper a écrit : On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Scott T. Hildreth [SNIP] (not designed to be troll-bait, just my personal opinion on the matter -- don't comment on it please) FWIW, Personally I don't think that Flash support is as critical as