Yes they are. They are DRM drivers exactly for this purpose. There is a section further down the page that references this:
"Getting 3d acceleration to work" Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro > Those drivers are not for 3D support. Those are for getting things like TV > out on laptops and cards that have it to work. > > Ken > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php > > > > The binary drivers do not work, presumably because they were compiled with > > gcc-2.95.2? I think the modules for X (not the kernel modules) are supposed > > to be portable between platforms (i.e. Linux and FreeBSD). However, you can > > CVS source and try to build from there, but I have had no luck as I have not > > been able to login: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ati]$ > > cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/gatos login > > Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/gatos > > CVS password: > > cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) > > > > I have the drivers working great under Linux using Gentoo ... but I would > > like my workstation to be FreeBSD for the obvious reason ... but I need > > accellerated OpenGL support. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:00 AM > > Subject: Re: OpenGL and ATI Radeon 9700 Pro > > > > > > > You actually found a site that had drivers for FreeBSD? I was under the > > > impression that such a thing didn't exist. Basically this card has no 3d > > > acceleration support in FreeBSD. > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > > > > > This weekend I installed KDE and noticed that the OpenGL screen savers > > were > > > > incredibly slow. It is clear that the graphic accelleration provided by > > my > > > > ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card is not being used. I found a site that > > had > > > > drivers apparently for FreeBSD, but it didn't seem to work. I am > > running > > > > FreeBSD 5.1. Are there adequate drivers out there to support this? > > > > > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"