Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
You actually found a site that had drivers for FreeBSD? I was under the impression that such a thing didn't exist. Basically this card has no 3d acceleration support in FreeBSD. Ken On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: This weekend I installed KDE and noticed that the OpenGL screen savers were incredibly slow. It is clear that the graphic accelleration provided by my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card is not being used. I found a site that had drivers apparently for FreeBSD, but it didn't seem to work. I am running FreeBSD 5.1. Are there adequate drivers out there to support this? Tom Veldhouse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Those drivers are not for 3D support. Those are for getting things like TV out on laptops and cards that have it to work. Ken On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php The binary drivers do not work, presumably because they were compiled with gcc-2.95.2? I think the modules for X (not the kernel modules) are supposed to be portable between platforms (i.e. Linux and FreeBSD). However, you can CVS source and try to build from there, but I have had no luck as I have not been able to login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ati]$ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/gatos login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/gatos CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) I have the drivers working great under Linux using Gentoo ... but I would like my workstation to be FreeBSD for the obvious reason ... but I need accellerated OpenGL support. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Kenneth Wayne Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:00 AM Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro You actually found a site that had drivers for FreeBSD? I was under the impression that such a thing didn't exist. Basically this card has no 3d acceleration support in FreeBSD. Ken On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: This weekend I installed KDE and noticed that the OpenGL screen savers were incredibly slow. It is clear that the graphic accelleration provided by my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card is not being used. I found a site that had drivers apparently for FreeBSD, but it didn't seem to work. I am running FreeBSD 5.1. Are there adequate drivers out there to support this? Tom Veldhouse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: software/hardware question
Hi, There are things called winmodems and winprinters which do require Windows as some of the work the hardware would normally do is handeled on the CPU. However I've found FreeBSD to work on 99% of the hardware I've chucked at it without any problems. sometimes its take a bit of work to but normally it will be fine. If you let us know what sort of hardware you have got I'm sure we can help you Yeah, you should be fine as long as you don't expect 3d acceleration on the latest video cards. My ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, along with anything from 9500 up don't have 3d acceleration support, and anything later than a geforce 4 from nvidia is missing 3d support as well. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: software/hardware question
I have the ATI Raedon 7500 all in wonder, and finding out if the tv tuner works in freebsd or not has been quite fruitless so far. Google for gatos. Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Wayne Culver Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:03 PM To: Rus Foster Cc: mell miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: software/hardware question Hi, There are things called winmodems and winprinters which do require Windows as some of the work the hardware would normally do is handeled on the CPU. However I've found FreeBSD to work on 99% of the hardware I've chucked at it without any problems. sometimes its take a bit of work to but normally it will be fine. If you let us know what sort of hardware you have got I'm sure we can help you Yeah, you should be fine as long as you don't expect 3d acceleration on the latest video cards. My ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, along with anything from 9500 up don't have 3d acceleration support, and anything later than a geforce 4 from nvidia is missing 3d support as well. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: software/hardware question
Except that the Gatos drivers i general need an patched linux DRM kernel module and/or at least the Video4Linux linux kernel subsystem. To my knowledge freebsd doesn't support either. (Although I'm a bit outdated since i gave up on gatos and ATI-tuners/video inn/out chipsetts about a year ago.) I've had it working fine on my FreeBSD machine. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: free?
I'm a bit confused -- your website clearly states that freeBSD is a free OS, yet each of the sites that offer the CD charge money for it. Am I missing something here? It's free to download, or you can buy cd's. Usually as far as I know, the CD's come with some other extras as well. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: free?
I am down with a few dollars. However, after perusing a few of the sites, the bare minimum cheapest going rate seems to be around $30. Anyone know of any cheaper freebsd CDs out there? Student rate perhaps? Why can't you just download it? Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: free?
Want to build a network appliance to run a proprietary firewall product and use FreeBSD as the operating system? Want to keep your modifications proprietary? Go right ahead -- Nokia did exactly that. What to lift the entire IP networking stack and use it in a new proprietary OS -- fine: that's what Microsoft did -- see the acknowledgements to Luigi Rizzo (FreeBSD committer: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/) and the University of California, Berkeley in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/copyright.asp The page you're looking for has been moved or removed from the site. If you're looking for a particular document, please try one of the following areas: ... That's what comes up when I type that URL. Ken Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
