[ltp] radeonhd or xf86-video-ati (atombios-support branch)

[Alex Deucher]

On Dec 27, 2007 9:50 PM, Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 21:38 -0500, Brad Langhorst wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 03:55 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Did the driver build ok?  Are you actually using the driver you built?
> > >  If you want to replace your current driver, you'll need to pass a
> > > prefix to autogen.sh to it will install in the right place:
> > >  ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> > > make
> > > sudo make install
> >
> > i just installed it manually by copying the ati.so file from
> > src/.libs/
> >
> > to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
> > renaming the old one
> >
> > i'll try again and post the log.
>
> ach - i didn't notice the radeon_drv.so ...
>
> once i installed that one too, it worked fine.
>
> in fact i'm using it now.
>
> I don't notice any difference between this one and radeonhd yet.

In order to use the CP for acceleration, you'll need to build the r500
branch of the drm from git.  That will give you a slight boost over
the MMIO accel.

Alex