[ltp] Radeon support for T42 DRI?

Bill Sheppard linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:55:45 -0700


Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 14:20:42 -0400, Jiang Qian wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:00:07AM -0700, Bill Sheppard wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm running SuSE 9.3 (Xorg 6.8.2) on a T42 with a Radeon RV350 (Mobility
>>> Radeon 9600 M10).  When starting X my log notes
>>>
>>> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and
>>> newer.
>>> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
>>>
>>> I'm not able to find a newer Xorg which will run on SuSE 9.3 and would
>>> rather not compile everything up on my own.  Is there any way to update
>>> the radeon driver to support DRI on this version of X?
>>>       
>> You need an xorg 7.1
>>     
>
> It should also work with Xorg 6.9. 6.8.2 works with a patched radeon
> driver and the r300_dri.so copied to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/.
>   
Where can I find the patched radeon driver?

Bill

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