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Date:      Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:48:32 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        gary.jennejohn@freenet.de
Cc:        freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Pending MFC of drm updates
Message-ID:  <1231433312.93079.17.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090108172236.6f944ddd@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:22 +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:27:08 +0100
> Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> wrote:
>=20
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:03:50AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> >=20
> > > > 1) the infamous "ThinkPad T43p" ;) running i386:
> > > >=20
> > > > Sorry, but RELENG_7_1 with your drm-update still shows a garbled
> > > > screen. The same userland with a -CURRENT kernel works without prob=
lems.
> > >=20
> > > Is this a pci based radeon as well?  If so, there is still a patch in
> > > -CURRENT that isn't in this set yet.
> >=20
> > Yes, it's a PCIE card: "ATI FireGL M24 GL 3154 (PCIE)"
> >=20
> > > new xorg will hit ports soon, but a preliminary patch is available at
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/xorg-7.4-111608.patch
> >=20
> > Ok, I'll test it.
> >=20
>=20
> I have an RV6xx based system here - graphics in the chipset.  Can you,
> Roland, say whether this patch will allow me to use DRM/DRI with it?
> Right now it's not recognized.

It should however support the latest Intel chipsets, and R500 and below
AMD/ATI including the IGP chips (rs690 and rs485).  If you have the
garbled screen with pci based radeons, I have a patch for that also that
isn't part of this MFC yet.

The newer chips may also need the newer Xorg / Mesa bits, coming to a
ports collection near you very soon.

robert.

> ---
> Gary Jennejohn

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