ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570

[foxofinfinety]

pretty much a case of "title say it all".....

I installed PCBSD on my notebook which is a Toshiba satellite L550D-11N.
which has a ATI Mobility Radeon 4570 w/ 512MB VRAM.

the driver that PCBSD loads for it works, but without hardware acceleration and with a maximum resolution of 1024x768@72Hz, but I normally use 1600x900@72Hz.

but the biggest problem if that if I open something that needs OpenGL.
the colors are really messed-up...


so I'm looking for a driver for a ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570.

[foxofinfinety]

I managed to get the resolution up, apparently I had it set to use VESA mode, rather then radeonhd mode.

but I still don't have video acceleration, that still is a problem.
since no games work now (I want to play NeverBall :()

[kmoore134]

You'll probably need to re-test this once we get a snapshot rolled with the new xorg 7.5 & drivers. I've seen that its already in testing, hopefully it'll hit ports soon :)

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-April/thread.html

[foxofinfinety]

any ideas as to when that snapshot will come?

[jordanwells]

pretty much a case of "title say it all".....

I installed PCBSD on my notebook which is a Toshiba satellite L550D-11N.
which has a ATI Mobility (http://www.3gcgroup.com/index.php/projects/mobile-unified-communications) Radeon 4570 w/ 512MB VRAM.

the driver that PCBSD loads for it works, but without hardware mobile network security (http://www.3gcgroup.com/index.php/services/network-security) acceleration and with a maximum resolution of 1024x768@72Hz, but I normally use 1600x900@72Hz.

but the biggest problem if that if I open something that needs OpenGL.
the colors are really messed-up...


so I'm looking for a driver for a ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570.

Does anyone know why the problem occurs when using OpenGL? i dont understand why this is an issue for the driver that PCBSD loads for

[richardpl]

Because that open source radeonhd driver does not have hardware acceleration support on FreeBSD and maybe even not on Linux.
Either get nvidia - they create native drivers for FreeBSD or ultra fast CPU (fantasy world) and use OpenGL with software rendering via Mesa3D library (Implementation of OpenGL on Unix).