[ltp] DRI/OpenGL with radeon driver

[D. Sen]

hmm I have been using the radeon driver for a few months now. I have 
never had any success with DRI though. I have tried enabling it on 
xorg.conf after loading appropriate modules into the kernel...but it has 
never worked.



Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 9/1/05, D. Sen <dsen@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>>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)?
>>
> 
> 
> the r300 and radeon drivers are the same driver.  both use the radeon
> DDX and drm.  the only difference is the 3d lib.  If xorg radeon + DRI
> works for you then so will r300.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
>>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       These instructions are pretty out-of-date now, and I've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
>>
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