Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:42:19 +0200 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: "Robert Noland" <rnoland@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of video-ati nowadays? Message-ID: <9bbcef730807270642o669c1071y8873e7176b319e1f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1217163884.1901.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net> References: <g6gfs4$83e$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080727071158.c700bb42.adamk@voicenet.com> <1217163884.1901.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net>
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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 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. >> > >> > 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. >> >> 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 :-) >> >> 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. Broken how? I've started the script from the wiki page and apparently git clones the repositories fine.
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