driver for ati radeon

cuongvt · #1 January 3rd, 2010, 04:43

Hi all
I'v switched from nvidia to ati radeon HD 4600 (personal reason).
in the ports there is nvidia-driver to install, how about ati radeon? which port should I install for my ati radeon HD 4600.
thanks

oldduffer · #2 January 3rd, 2010, 05:01

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you're going to have to use the Xorg Radeon driver. ATI doesn't have a driver for FreeBSD.

That driver should be available in the x11-drivers ports I believe. I know you can choose it when configuring/building X.

ShruggingAtlas · #3 January 3rd, 2010, 12:42

Your best bet is the radeon driver (xf86-video-ati), it is installed by default with xorg. If it does not auto configure try setting 'Option "NoAccel" "True"' in xorg.conf.

I had to do that for my rv790.

/Martin

kolbycrouch · #4 January 17th, 2010, 21:04

Sorry to bump, but shouldn't xf86-video-ati have 2d xv accel for all cards.
I'm not trying to get 3d, although I am interested in pulling in the git driver, I would however like 2d support and the ability to play fullscreen videos in mplayer without -zoom.

adamk · #5 January 17th, 2010, 23:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by kolbycrouch

Sorry to bump, but shouldn't xf86-video-ati have 2d xv accel for all cards.
I'm not trying to get 3d, although I am interested in pulling in the git driver, I would however like 2d support and the ability to play fullscreen videos in mplayer without -zoom.

Yes, xf86-video-ati has 2D acceleration (including Xv and EXA) for all cards up to and including the HD4950. I'm not sure when the necessary kernel components were included in FreeBSD, so you might need 8.0-RELEASE (though, actually, I'm fairly certain it's supported in 7.2).

If you have problems, please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Adam

fronclynne · #6 January 17th, 2010, 21:13

I'm using "radeon" which is part of your x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati which plays fullscreen just fine on my

Code:

(--) PCI:*(0@1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe0000000/134217728, 0xee300000/65536, 0xee200000/1048576, I/O @ 0x00006000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536

kolbycrouch · #7 January 17th, 2010, 21:45

Could you post your xorg.conf? I had the same problem with my friends m200(mobile radeon 200, cant remember if thats the actually name).

fronclynne · #8 January 17th, 2010, 22:33

It ain't pretty (& there's a bunch of stuff that isn't needed any more), but here ya go:

Code:

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

Section "Files"
        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/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/URW/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/urwfonts-ttf/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/util/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/terminus-font/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/montecarlo/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Liberation/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-fonts/"
  FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en/"
  FontPath      "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Xg/"
#   FontPath      "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/null/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "glx"
#  Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dri2"
#  Load "exa"
#  Load "xtt"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
#  Option "Device" "/dev/kbdmux0"
  Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
  Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:left_meta_win"
EndSection

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

Section "Monitor"
        DisplaySize       332   207     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "LPL"
        ModelName    "LP154WX4-TLC8"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Option     "AccelMethod" "EXA"        # <str>
  Option     "DRI" "true"                       # [<bool>]
        Identifier      "Card0"
        Driver          "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Screen0"
        Device          "Card0"
        Monitor         "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
            Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
            Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
            Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
            Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
            Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
            Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
  Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

kolbycrouch · #9 January 18th, 2010, 00:09

Sorry I should have mentioned, I am using 8.0-RELEASE, i'll try the options in fronclynnes xorg.conf and post back.

Edit: still no good, even with radeonhd-devel

can't post log because its too long, tried code tags.

adamk · #10 January 18th, 2010, 10:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by kolbycrouch

Sorry I should have mentioned, I am using 8.0-RELEASE, i'll try the options in fronclynnes xorg.conf and post back.

Edit: still no good, even with radeonhd-devel

can't post log because its too long, tried code tags.

Then use service like http://pastebin.com/

Adam

ZappyDaemon · #11 January 20th, 2010, 04:29

I am using xf86-video-readonhd for Radeon HD 4570.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "RADEON"
        Driver  "radeonhd"
        Option  "BusType"               "PCIE"
        Option  "VideoRam"              "524288"
EndSection

Everything work fine, except cannot display console after into graphic mode. So I must use gdm (for startup and shutdown).

atomicplayboy · #12 January 18th, 2010, 08:30

I don't know if it helps you any, but Xv video acceleration requires EXA to be enabled.

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