Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:33:55 -0800 From: "Andrew Spott" <andrew.spott@gmail.com> To: "Gregers Petersen" <gp.ioa@cbs.dk>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM T42p (Radeon RV350) and Direct Rendering (DRI) problems Message-ID: <4ef61ea20603101033j5a0f5be7m5cc643ba9e5d450a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060310103444.GB46557@pegasus.dyndns.info> References: <20060308141302.GE47666@pegasus.dyndns.info> <4411545A.9090401@cbs.dk> <20060310103444.GB46557@pegasus.dyndns.info>
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don't forget that you have a Firegl T2, not a Radeon 9600. The cards are very similar, but they are not the same card, which means there might be some weird thing going on that messes it up. anyways, let me know if you get it working, i've got a T42p myself that I wouldn't mind having drm for. -Andrew On 3/10/06, Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > Gregers Petersen wrote on 2006-03-10 at 11:26:34 CET: > > Frank Altpeter wrote: > > > > > >Hi there, > > > > > >I'm trying to configure my FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE to use direct render= ing > > >with xorg-6.9.0 but i cannot get it to work for unknown reason. > > > > > > > > > > At first --> is that Ati chipset support by X.org to do 3d at all? > Don't know exactly. According to r300.sf.net it should be supported by > using the port graphics/dri-devel. > > > If. then --> > > > > Did you remember to compile > > > > device drm > > > > into the kernel (you need both the drm and radeondrm devices) ... > Yes, of course. Device 'radeondrm' doesn't compile without having 'drm' > defined. > > > & when you have the direct rendering up and running you probably get > > problems with suspend/resume --> the system crashes, and you then need = to > > patch the agp (http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/agp_cvs.patch) (whic= h > > mostly works, if you do a re-compile of the complete x.org system).. > Suspend/Resume is usually not used by me, so that shouldn't be a problem. > But since i didn't get direct rendering to work yet, it's a task i can > resolve afterwards :) > > > All in all --> you wonder if it is worthwhile .. > I think yes - i can work with xterms and some tools, but there's a lot of > things that don't work sufficient without direct rendering, for example > watching DVDs or playing ppracer :) > Yep, that are things i don't need at work, but it would be great to have = them. > > > T=ECoraidh an-dr=E0sda, > > Frank Altpeter > > -- > *** FA-RIPE *** http://blog.foxalpha.de/ *** SIG at 11 *** > | There's never time to do it right, but there's always > | time to do it over. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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