v9.1 and AMD graphics..

[Tigersharke]

I know that improvements have been made for Intel graphics for X and that TTM for the AMD equivalent advances may not be for some time. Are my only options with v9.1 either to use VESA (functional but barely acceptable with modern hardware/programs) or buy a cheap nVidia card to use? My current graphics card is a Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) which works quite nicely in v9.0.

Assuming the above are my only two options, I would like to propose a third:

Allow for the regression of X and those items (KDE etc) that depend upon the new GEM/KMS stuff which is out of reach of AMD Radeon HD hardware. This means that all other v9.1 improvements would be available and those of us who do not have nVidia/intel graphics would not be "out in the cold".

[FreeMWP]

I'm in the same possion as you. Another option could be a set of xorg incl. drivers compiled with WITH_KMS=yes in make.conf and a set of xorg incl. drivers without. The WITH_NEW_XORG=yes in make.conf works fine for my ATI Radeon HD 2600 without the KMS option.

[kmoore134]

I've done this for RC2. During the installation under the "Hardware"
section of packages, you can select the "ATI-Legacy" driver, and it'll
remove the KMS Intel / libdrm drivers, and replace them with the older
ATI drivers compiled the normal way

[gour]

Hello Kris,

I've done this for RC2. During the installation under the "Hardware" section of packages, you can select the "ATI-Legacy" driver, and it'll remove the KMS Intel / libdrm drivers, and replace them with the older ATI drivers compiled the normal way

today I visited #pcbsd after more than one year since I left not being able to properly meet all my desktop requirements.

One of the present obstacles to put (again) PCBSD on my and on few others desktops (running Archlinux distro) are machines with ATI graphic card.

My desktop has ATI Radeon 4670 and this one should be OK, but my netbook (as well as the one from the friend) has ATI Radeon 6320, but your post gives me hope that it will be possible to put PCBSD-9.1 on such machines and have decent video performance (my friend is watching movies and YouTube videos )?


Sincerely,
Gour