From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 23:59:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645E81065675; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:59:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vehemens@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E80C8FC0A; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:59:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vehemens@verizon.net) Received: from sam ([71.107.11.239]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K5O00MTP2N9TZ04@vms042.mailsrvcs.net>; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:59:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:05:12 -0700 From: vehemens In-reply-to: <1218842011.2040.3.camel@localhost> To: Coleman Kane Message-id: <200808151705.12296.vehemens@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200808142307.32015.vehemens@verizon.net> <200808151612.11847.vehemens@verizon.net> <1218842011.2040.3.camel@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] drm updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:59:34 -0000 On Friday 15 August 2008 04:13:31 pm Coleman Kane wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 16:12 -0700, vehemens wrote: > > On Friday 15 August 2008 07:41:27 am Coleman Kane wrote: > > > ... > > > Do you host any of the patches publicly right now? I'd be more than > > > happy to test them out and see how well they work with my RS690. Right > > > now my GPU is unusable for EXA or DRI using xf86-video-ati > > > (intermittently works) or xf86-video-radeonhd (never works, displays > > > artifacts, then screeches to a halt). > > > ... > > > > After thinking about your stability problems a bit more, xserver has > > recently received a number of EXA improvements, R500 MESA/DRM support is > > fairly recent, and the drivers are a moving target a well. Few (none?) > > of these improvements are in the official FreeBSD src/ports trees. > > > > I'll send you a xf86-video-radeonhd tarball that I just created and > > tested with my HD 2660 PRO. It may help, but I suspect that other parts > > of the X tree will need to be updated as well. > > I've been tracking the following masters from fd.o git: > > mesa/drm dri2proto fontsproto glproto inputproto kbproto libX11 > libXdamage libXfont libXtst libxcb libxtrans mesa/mesa xorg-server > x11proto randrproto xcb-proto xextproto xf86driproto xproto libXext > libXi libXrandr libpciaccess libxkbfile libxkbui xf86-video-ati > xf86-video-radeonhd xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse Interesting. The list is a bit shorter then mine. I don't see pixman as well as a few others. Not sure if it matters all that much. When you update mesa, do you update both the dri and libGL ports? Ditto for libdrm and kernel drm? Guess I'll checkout my builds on a RS690 and see what happens.