From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 14:07:00 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 846E81065671 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2D68FC15 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so4889837rvf.43 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:07:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=+Y8tBJ/t7ghHE+tofpn4zoCY3CX0MStQDAcHghp0IwA=; b=ohBF+s6lYd3n/Ihct29KgMy0CwU+q0VO1kL6qWjfWjcxk/yTHmpRZAszwhP8aQ5oAQ Qv0v+6Zg+ZWz3cKx2WxkgCNsKBEAqx3ZFZzoDPXNPT81gnz1ebf168gDnDfL6tljZ3vt nPX8ysQ3mQgpdKUM/PcEkJ2Tm1zu0E/+YTNAk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=LT/dDRydOwffckiBfiRF6JvR9uvYGFswX2AAmv43EWRNB9QGEjJe9GtHjFX0z+V9hL 8Awd4aketDCACpQKfcukxTgJA27sW4k/tri3H+b3lzrbgr2sa7wFci8icbchOVEu/BZg CFvw6gEzmIz5s2ldv5VnQtsY89THMlqjlBeFw= Received: by 10.140.192.9 with SMTP id p9mr1839454rvf.193.1217166139921; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.159.2 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9bbcef730807270642o669c1071y8873e7176b319e1f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:42:19 +0200 From: "Ivan Voras" Sender: ivoras@gmail.com To: "Robert Noland" In-Reply-To: <1217163884.1901.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080727071158.c700bb42.adamk@voicenet.com> <1217163884.1901.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6d5a8a1a888c3402 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of video-ati nowadays? 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: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:07:00 -0000 2008/7/27 Robert Noland : > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 07:11 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: >> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:35:15 +0200 >> Ivan Voras 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.