Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:04:43 -0400 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: State of video-ati nowadays? Message-ID: <1217163884.1901.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20080727071158.c700bb42.adamk@voicenet.com> References: <g6gfs4$83e$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080727071158.c700bb42.adamk@voicenet.com>
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--=-khFy0YpWlOrTPeieH6xU Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > > Hi, > >=20 > > After a long time, I tried booting X on a machine with Radeon X1600.=20 > > With the "vesa" driver it works fine, though slow in the usual=20 > > operations (compositing, transparency). I upgraded the ati driver to > > the latest (6.9) and, while it managed to start, it was extraordinary > > 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. > >=20 > > Is this normal (i.e. the driver still doesn't support the card) or am > > 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. >=20 > To get decent 2D acceleration, you need an updated DRM from freedesktop > git. To get 3D acceleration, you need an updated Mesa from freedesktop > git. And, finally, to get working AIGLX, you need an updated xserver > from freedesktop git :-) >=20 > If you want to try that: >=20 > 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. robert. > Adam >=20 --=-khFy0YpWlOrTPeieH6xU 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkiMcmsACgkQM4TrQ4qfRONtxQCeIkbjvr41qrPP34MvVBUsfhL2 JsIAn25eqhCPyHBBQtEoRBLsXu14iiQM =QVZm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-khFy0YpWlOrTPeieH6xU--
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