[HEADS UP] Radeon r6/7xx drm code to be committed
Nenhum_de_Nos
matheus at eternamente.info
Mon Mar 9 10:27:51 PDT 2009
On Mon, March 9, 2009 13:53, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>> Gary Jennejohn writes:
>>
>> > > > This should work on pretty much all Radeon r600+ cards (and the
>> older
>> > > > stuff as well). With the appropriate X drivers, you should get
>> EXA
>> > > > accelleration and Xv. 3d is not available yet, afaik.
>> > >
>> >
>> > This is kernel code and has nothing directly to do with ports.
>>
>> Let me be more specific.
>> Assuming I'm using a 3850, which I believe is the RV670
>> chipset, is there anything I will need to change in xorg.conf (or
>> elsewhere) to take advantage of/not break the new code?
>
> rv670 is what I'm testing on... I tried to put a few details in the
> commit message.
>
> Basically, for R600+ you have to force DRI on for the moment. You
> should also be using exa.
>
> So, right now, I'm using radeonhd from git master, with :
>
> Driver "radeonhd"
> VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
> BoardName "RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850]"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> Option "DRI"
> Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> Option "Audio"
> EndSection
>
> robert.
>
>>
>> Robert Huff
>>
> --
> Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
> FreeBSD
I'm planning to move from nVidia to ATi, and all this work is what makes
me do that. This code you're talking about, would benefit a HD4850 ?
thanks,
matheus
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