ATI driver?

[magnus]

Hi

Will there be a PBI for ATI graphic cards?

I've heard that ATI is not as open-source-friendly as NVidia. Correct?


Regards
Magnus

[dixy]

See http://www.pcbsd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=408

[dixy]

It eats shit! Now there are two days from my first attend to compile an ATI driver for pc-bsd. I've done the job before in bsd 5.2 and, to test it I compiled the driver successfully on slack 10/r350/radeon 9600 pro. It seems like Mesa broke the source tree and with an older checkin < 05.4.2005 I'll get an working driver (on linux). Tried to manually patch source code so it could compile on 5.4 . When I attend to use test programs linked against SDL, I've got the pthread errors. Tried to use GLX in place of SDL. It just fucked up my screen.

To be continued...

[dixy]

It seems that this thread turns into my personal blog regarding ATI drivers.

[dean_fry]

and i'm readin it carefully cause i want my x600 on my notebook to get workin!

[dixy]

Ran NeHe's lesson 10 with GLX, looks fine for a second and then crashes. I do not yet understand why I compiles without problems and doesn't crash repeatedly on slack but I can't get it to work right now on pc-bsd.