RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-27 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
> Subject: RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer > acceptable. Bounty established...) > > > Sean Cavanaugh writes: > > > AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the > > ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a new

RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Huff
Sean Cavanaugh writes: > AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the > ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a news article iI > came across they were actually hiring a whole new department > whose sole purpose was to add more of the older cards to the open > sorce

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-26 Thread George Hartzell
Mike Meyer writes: > [...] > I'm not sure those are the drivers Theierry wants. The proprietary > driver was called fglrx, not "radeon" or "radeonhd". Those two drivers > have been in the X open source trees for quite a while now. I first > started using the radeon driver on amd64 in late 2006

RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-26 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> fglrx is the only way that anyone's going to get true 3D OpenGL> support, and > the last time I checked that wasn't available except for> ancient cards on > FreeBSD.> > AMD was supposed to be helping ATI, but it appears that after > the> merger all that's happened is a website change and ATI's

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD > > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under Free

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Ben Kaduk
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit : >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD >> > drivers

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD > > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ? > > Well, I'm using

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Ben Kaduk
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ? > Well, I'm using radeonhd right now on a [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/s