Compiz now working with ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro

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I've managed to get Compiz and Compiz Fusion working on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with the above ATI video card, also known as M10, under FreeBSD, without too much trouble.
Just posting this in case others are not aware yet of this good news.

I was able to get it working by following this thread:

http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=55577

And in particular this patch:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 05068.html

Also, under 7-Release, it seems the patch has been integrated and it works out of the box.

All I have to do in Konsole is:
pcbsd# setenv LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT 1
pcbsd# compiz --replace --sm-disable ccp &

Entering ccsm & will run the Compiz Config settings manager. You need to re-run the compix --replace after making changes to make them effective.

Here's my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/local/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dri"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 330 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "SEC"
ModelName "3155"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: [i]: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # [i]
Option "AGPMode" "4" # [i]
#Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # [i]
#Option "GARTSize" # [i]
#Option "RingSize" # [i]
#Option "BufferSize" # [i]
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
Option "EnablePageFlip" "True" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBTexPercent" # [i]
#Option "DepthBits" # [i]
#Option "PCIAPERSize" # [i]
#Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
#Option "DDCMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
Option "ColorTiling" "True" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # [i]
#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # [i]
#Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # [i]
#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # [i]
#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # [i]
#Option "TunerType" # [i]
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
#Option "ScalerWidth" # [i]
Option "RenderAccel" "True" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
Option "DynamicClocks" "True" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
#Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
#Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[TerryP]

I'm shocked with that graphics card ! How is the performance under load ?

I know I once had a 9800 XT for gaming, worked quite well but not the greatest 3D capabilities IMHO.

Alongside the 9800, the 9600 (a.k.a. RV350) series was rolled out in early 2003, and while the 9600 PRO didn't outperform the 9500 PRO that it was supposed to replace, it was much more economical for ATI to produce by way of a 130nm process (all ATI's cards since the 7500/8500 had been 150nm) and a simplified design. Radeon 9600's "RV350" core was basically a 9800 PRO cut in half, with exactly half of the same functional units, making it a 4x1 architecture with 2 vertex shaders. It also lost part of HyperZ III with the removal of the hierarchical z-buffer optimization unit, the same as Radeon 9500. Using a 130nm process was also good for pushing up the core clock speed. The 9600 series, all with high default clocking, was shown to have quite a bit of headroom by overclockers (achieving over 500 MHz, from 400 MHz on the Pro model). While the 9600 series was less powerful than the 9500 and 9500 PRO it replaced, it did largely manage to maintain the 9500's lead over NVIDIA’s GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, and it was ATI's cost-effective answer to the long-time mainstream performance board, GeForce4 Ti 4200.