Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6.1 and radeon 7000
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: UndeRsc0re <delrosso.a@inwind.it>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/12/2003 08:51:47
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:44:04AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> UndeRsc0re wrote:
>
> >i need to know if the radeon 7000 works on NetBSD 1.6.1!
> >I'm FreeBSD user, but i want to try NetBSD. The 3D accel works fine?
> >And dvd? I've athlon xp 1900+.
>
> I've got a radeon7500 but iirc I had to upgrade to XFree 4.3.0 to get it
> to work properly (NetBSD 1.6.1 comes packaged with 4.2.1, I checked
> out xsrc from the NetBSD repository via cvs, and build it with make
This is the right way?
> install). It works well so far. XFree DRI (hardware 3D OpenGL
> rendering) is not supported out of box. There seems to be work underway
> to get it implemented on NetBSD aswell, please see
> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ (from the guy who has implemented
> it on FreeBSD already). GL rendering through the MESA lib (software GL)
> works, though, albeit slowly. If you don't want to play games, or other
> high-performance OpenGL applications, that will work fine (like, some 3d
> modelling application or similar).
Thanks for the reply, but i'm interesting to play games. Project Gatos
doesn't work under *BSD?