how to turn on 3d accelerator features in ATI graphics card?

[pangeran]

Hi there, i'm newbie in pcbsd/freebsd... :)
Right now i'm using ati radeon 9550 graphic card.
Is there's any way to turn on 3d accelerator features in pcbsd/freebsd?

thanks! :)

[Oliver Herold]

No Ati doesn't support FreeBSD. The driver isn't of any quality in Linux too, far behind Nvidias driver.
There is an open-source driver, but only for some very old cards. It could be possible that you R360 chip is supportet with drm/dri. But you have to wait for Xorg 7.2.

[Tommy89]

I have an ATI 9600SE i buy it 3 years ago + o - there's nothing to do? :cry:

[dracheflieger]

I have an ATI 9600SE i buy it 3 years ago + o - there's nothing to do? :cry:

Of course there's something you guys can do...write ATI/AMD support and ask them to support PC/FreeBsd with new drivers for 3D

[pangeran]

I already ask AMD/ATI last night. I hope (wish?) soon they reply it... :?

[Tommy89]

pangeran if ati/amd ask you about drivers can u write me by mail? tnx :)

[pangeran]

no resplied from them yet :(

I reads somewhere in internet (i forgot the url) , it seems because they cannot shares their drivers sourcecode because copyrights, legal or whatever blablabla etc.etc... :(

[dracheflieger]

no resplied from them yet :(

I reads somewhere in internet (i forgot the url) , it seems because they cannot shares their drivers sourcecode because copyrights, legal or whatever blablabla etc.etc... :(

Nor does nVidia but they do provide binaries where ATI does not.

[pangeran]

Hmm I wonder... ATI provided drivers for MacOS, maybe freebsd can use it too ? :D hohohoo... (I reads from wiki , mac and freebsd came from same source "Darwin" right ? :> )

[antik]

Hmm I wonder... ATI provided drivers for MacOS, maybe freebsd can use it too ? :D hohohoo... (I reads from wiki , mac and freebsd came from same source "Darwin" right ? :> )


Darwin is built around XNU, a hybrid kernel that combines the Mach 3 microkernel, various elements of FreeBSD 5 (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system), and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit.

[cokebear]

I've just installed PC-BSD 1.3 for just over a week and recently I've just bought the I-INC TW191D monitor and it looks wonderful, but can't get it to the native resolution of 1440x900. When trying to change display settings within KDE, I don't have a choice for 1440x900. I use an ATI Rage 128 AGP card. When I pry into xorg.conf (I'm new at this), I'm using the "ati" driver, but settings are on "1280x1024". I tried adding "1440x900" but it doesn't work. I try googling around and noticed that some other people have this problem too, while other claims that vesa driver doesn't work with widescreen. Is that applicable to my case and how can I rectify this???

[marc]

Ati ... :shock:

They deserve to die.

[antik]

Ati ... :shock:

They deserve to die.

You mean AMD?

[marc]

I mean team of the ATI creators, not the whole company :)

[pheet]

Hi there, i'm newbie in pcbsd/freebsd... :)
Right now i'm using ati radeon 9550 graphic card.
Is there's any way to turn on 3d accelerator features in pcbsd/freebsd?

thanks! :)

Try following the steps in this article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/12/07/freebsd_basicsg.html

I assume the radeon module is being used by Xorg in your case.

As mentioned earlier, ATI's support for non-windows OSs is non-existant (unlike nvidia), so don't expect optimal results as the driver was probably reverse-engineered.

(You may have to wait for the next version of pcbsd which has the newer xorg 7.2)

Good luck

[pheet]

...I use an ATI Rage 128 AGP card. When I pry into xorg.conf (I'm new at this), I'm using the "ati" driver, ...

I think there's a different driver available called r128 that you use instead of the generic ati driver.

Back-up your xorg.conf, try changing it from ati to r128, restart X, see what happens.

From man r128:
r128 is an Xorg driver for ATI Rage 128 based video cards. It contains
full support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths, hardware accelera-
tion of drawing primitives, hardware cursor, video modes up to
1800x1440