Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:14:44 -0400 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of video-ati nowadays? Message-ID: <1217171684.1901.10.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730807270642o669c1071y8873e7176b319e1f@mail.gmail.com> References: <g6gfs4$83e$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080727071158.c700bb42.adamk@voicenet.com> <1217163884.1901.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <9bbcef730807270642o669c1071y8873e7176b319e1f@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-qTYvyV6sc16jdFKlG/u3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 15:42 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > 2008/7/27 Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org>: > > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 07:11 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > >> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:35:15 +0200 > >> Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > After a long time, I tried booting X on a machine with Radeon X1600. > >> > With the "vesa" driver it works fine, though slow in the usual > >> > operations (compositing, transparency). I upgraded the ati driver to > >> > the latest (6.9) and, while it managed to start, it was extraordinar= y > >> > slow (much slower than vesa) and had a funny bug in Xfce Terminal, > >> > where the "black" color of characters in the terminal would become > >> > transparent, showing pixels underneath the window. > >> > > >> > Is this normal (i.e. the driver still doesn't support the card) or a= m > >> > I doing something wrong? The xorg.conf is plain and boring, without > >> > any special tuning, the dri and radeon kernel modules are loaded. > >> > This is on 8-CURRENT. > >> > >> To get decent 2D acceleration, you need an updated DRM from freedeskto= p > >> git. To get 3D acceleration, you need an updated Mesa from freedeskto= p > >> git. And, finally, to get working AIGLX, you need an updated xserver > >> from freedesktop git :-) > >> > >> If you want to try that: > >> > >> http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git > > > > Note that git drm is slightly broken right now... I have a patch to > > address the issue, but I haven't pushed it to git yet... Maybe > > tomorrow... Meanwhile, if you go this route, let me know and I'll send > > you the patch. >=20 > Broken how? I've started the script from the wiki page and apparently > git clones the repositories fine. I introduced a bug a couple of days ago while trying to fix an issue. My patch will require minor changes on the linux side, so I haven't pushed it yet. The patch is at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-fix-master.patch robert. --=-qTYvyV6sc16jdFKlG/u3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkiMkOQACgkQM4TrQ4qfROMdAwCdGEDIFmdg2IVl4/IgMXGiYXK2 nhAAn0GpvAnLMau1wxu/o19/6VCBSiv4 =7zwv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-qTYvyV6sc16jdFKlG/u3--
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