[PC-BSD Support] Xorg 3d Ati Card

[Kris Moore]

Terry,

The open-source ATI driver is rather hit-n-miss on BSD or even Linux in 
general. I have very basic 3d support here with my ATI 9600 Pro, but it 
still won't run Compiz or anything advanced like that. However, I will 
be updating driver in the OS from 6.6 to 6.7 here very shortly, which 
may help your situation. That patch should be online by the end of the 
week.


-- 

Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
http://www.pcbsd.com


Terry Sposato wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed PC-BSD 1.4.1 and cannot enable 3d functionality in 
> Xorg. Even when I tried to boot into normal X after the installation 
> occured it would not work. I had to boot into single user mode, and add 
> the following to boot up normally or else my system hung and would only 
> respond to a hard power reset.
> 
> Option     "NoAccel"    "True"
> 
> Now the same thing has happened on a couple of other distro's and I am 
> pretty sure it is my laptop. It is an Asus M6R with an ATI Mobility 
> Radeon 9100IGP video card. The problem I am encounting is that whenever 
> I play movies etc. I get mini screen freezes every second or so and it 
> is really annoying. I did not get this problem in Ubuntu for instance. I 
> have tried using the ati-3d-enable option in the Xorg setup and my 
> system hangs as well so I am not sure what to do.
> 
> Anyone experienced this problem before?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Terry
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