msi 3870 3d acceleration

[dramaxus]

I need some way to enable 3d acceleration on my msi 3870 ( ati ) videocard I've tried the ati-3d-enable setting to no avail... any help would be most welcome as I'm very new to bsd and love the os already

please don't tell me Im doomed and need to buy a nvidia

[Oko]

I need some way to enable 3d acceleration on my msi 3870 ( ati ) videocard I've tried the ati-3d-enable setting to no avail... any help would be most welcome as I'm very new to bsd and love the os already

please don't tell me Im doomed and need to buy a nvidia

Could you post your xorg.conf file? Did you try radeonhd driver? You might need to go back and fourth little bit with Novel Developers who are writing the driver to patch few things but there is definitely some hope. Why do you need 3D acceleration? If it is just for games
spare yourself a trouble and run Windows.

[dramaxus]

Here is my current xorg.conf

# Xorg.conf file generated for PC-BSD

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option	   "Clone" "off"
    Option	   "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/local/lib/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/Programs/fonts/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load	   "dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load	   "glx"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "Buttons" "6"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions" 
    Option	"Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "EMA"
    ModelName      "e15t4"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
	HorizSync    30.0 - 60.0
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
EndSection


Section "Device"
    Identifier      "Card0"
    Screen           0
    Driver         "ati"
    VendorName     "ATI Video Driver"
#    Option         "CPPIOMode" "yes"
    Option	   "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option	   "AccelMethod" "EXA"
    BusID      "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth   24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth      24 
        Modes      "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[TerryP]

You can try the radeonhd driver in place of ati; but I doubt it will work well enough for PC-BSD 7.0.1s default setup.

The Radeon HD3870 appears to be a R670 based card, that isn't indicated as supported by the [url=http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=radeonhd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath =FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html[radeonhd[/url] manual; which also states the drivers limitations (things are getting better, but it won't be overnight magic...).

[dramaxus]

Thanks Terry.. I was hoping that I'd not hafta switch back to windows but hey, guess we all have to make some sacrifices =\ perhaps one day in the future bsd and ati will coenside as a workable unit