[ltp] DRI/OpenGL with radeon driver

[D. Sen]

Anyone using the r300 drive want to comment on how stable it is with 
ACPI/APM (as compared to say the radeon or fglrx driver)?

Thanks.


Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 9/1/05, David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com> wrote:
> 
>>>The r300 code has been integrated into mesa/drm/xorg cvs.  the stuff
>>>at r300.sf.net is deprecated.  See the standard guide for building:
>>
>>        Unfortunately, anything after that merge, is broken. The only
>>build I have been able to successfully run for more than 15 seconds in
>>X, is the 7/20 version of those separate trees (see my previous posts
>>on this for more detail).
>>
>>        You *WANT* the r300 tree from r300.sf.net, specifically the
>>drm subdirectory inside of it, to successfully build the kernel
>>modules to get proper DRI on a Thinkpad with the Radeon chip.
>>
>>
>>>http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building
>>
>>        These instructions are pretty out-of-date now, and I've
>>promised to make the necessary corrections, but I haven't found enough
>>time in my schedule to do it yet. There's about 4-5 steps that are
>>completely different now, after the changes to the trees (post-patch).
>>
> 
> 
> The instructions look pretty up to date to me.  Perhaps they have been
> updated since you last looked.  The only real change is that you need
> libdrm installed before you build mesa and that part has been updated.
> 
> 
>>David A. Desrosiers
>>desrod@gnu-designs.com
>>http://gnu-designs.com