FreeBSD and ATI Radeon

[BlvdKing]

I am not familiar with FreeBSD, but I am going to give it a chance, hardware willing. I am downloading 4.3 right now. Will XWindows on FreeBSD work with the Radeon? Which version of XFree86 does it have?

I have an AMD TBird 700 on an Irongate chipset. There is a known problem with the Radeon/Irongate/XFree86 4.0.x combination that I hope FreeBSD will solve. Any suggestions?

[freebsd]

FreeBSD, the latest version 4.3 or 5.0-CURRENT, is still using XF86 3.3.6 by default. If your card has a known problem with XFree86 4.x, what make you think that FreeBSD team would solve the problem? It's the job of XFree86 team to get the problem solved.

[BlvdKing]

Good point. My thinking was backwards. The Radeon didn't even have support aside from being a frame buffer before XFree86 4.0.2. All well, no FreeBSD for me then.

Thanks.

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by BlvdKing:
<STRONG>Good point. My thinking was backwards. The Radeon didn't even have support aside from being a frame buffer before XFree86 4.0.2. All well, no FreeBSD for me then.

Thanks.</STRONG>

I had my Radeon working in FreeBSD 4.2 using XFree 4.0.2. I'm currently working on getting it to work in XFree 4.0.3 (which is provided in the FreeBSD 4.3 image). If I get it working, I'll post what I did for you here.