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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:38:28 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Martin <nakal@web.de>
Subject:   Re: Xorg/X11 driver Radeon: radeon vs. radeonhd, a mess!
Message-ID:  <20090415113828.46075cdc@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <49E584F0.5030702@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <49E4B516.2080901@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090414231839.46d634f2@zelda.local> <49E584F0.5030702@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:55:44 +0000
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Martin wrote:
> > Am Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:08:54 +0200
> > schrieb "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
> > 
> >> [...]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > if you have problems with the radeonhd driver, you should tell the guys
> > who work at it. They are really nice and try to help everywhere.
> > 
> > Subscribe there:
> > http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/
> > 
> > I am only using radeonhd, because it works for me on all cards I have.
> > 
> > I noticed that window movement may get choppy, when you compile a new
> > kernel (DRM) and don't recompile a fresh radeonhd driver. This happens
> > especially when DRI is enabled for your xorg server.
> > 
> > --
> > Martin
> 
> As far as I know, radeonhd from ports doesn't work with DRI enabled on 
> FreeBSD - so it doesn't work on my box either. I guess you're following 
> the recommendations using the development brnach directly from GIT.
> 

Works for me on amd64 8-current.

garyj:ernst:~:-bash:4> grep DRI /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(**) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI"
(II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Back Buffer at offset 0x024B4000 (size = 0x00B13000)
(II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Depth Buffer at offset 0x02FC7000 (size = 0x00B13000)
(II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Textures at offset 0x03ADA000 (size = 0x0C400000)
(II) RADEONHD(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
garyj:ernst:~:-bash:5> ls -d /var/db/pkg/*radeon*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Apr 14 11:32 /var/db/pkg/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel-1.2.5.20090412

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Gary Jennejohn



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