From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 13:04:55 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 812221065697 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325988FC14 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.151] (adsl-19-213-9.bna.bellsouth.net [68.19.213.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6RD4oYk092476 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:04:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) From: Robert Noland To: Adam K Kirchhoff In-Reply-To: <20080727071158.c700bb42.adamk@voicenet.com> References: <20080727071158.c700bb42.adamk@voicenet.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-khFy0YpWlOrTPeieH6xU" Organization: FreeBSD Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:04:43 -0400 Message-Id: <1217163884.1901.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras 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 13:04:55 -0000 --=-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 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--