[ltp] DRI/OpenGL with radeon driver

[D. Sen]

ok, thanks.

Let me then rephrase the question. How stable are your systems with DRI 
enabled (especially during suspend to memory cycles).

DS

Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 9/1/05, D. Sen <dsen@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> well, it won't work until you are using a new enough version of the
> the drivers.  At this point you need to use the cvs versions of all
> three (ddx, drm, mesa) to get direct rendering on r3/400 class
> hardware.  The version of X that ship with most distros (6.8.x) does
> not support 3d on your hardware.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
>>
>>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      These instructions are pretty out-of-date now, and I've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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