[ltp] Any hope for Radeon M6 LY?

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:28:34 -0500


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:26:27 -0500, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:40 +0100, Tomek Jarzynka <tomeej@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 17 of January 2005 15:05, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > no.  There is a copy of mesa inported into Xorg head, but it's pretty
> > > old (it's usually only periodically synced for releases).  For the
> > > latest and greatest 3d drivers you'll need mesa cvs.  In the future,
> > > xorg will probably ship separate from mesa.
> >
> > Then, I should grab a copy of CVS Mesa and compile it for
> > linux-dri-x86 target? Will that work with X instantly or do
> > I have to move the downloaded CVS tree into X directory and
> > re-compile?
> >
> 
> you can just grab mesa and run make linux-dri-x86 and copy
> radeon_dri.so into your xorg install.
> 
> Alex
> 

although you will need an upgraded drm as well if you want to use
hyperz (you'll also need to enable hyperz in your .drirc).  For tiling
you'll have to apply the tiling patches and upgrade all three (xorg,
mesa, drm).

Alex