[CFT] drm updates

[Coleman Kane]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 17:05 -0700, vehemens wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2008 04:13:31 pm Coleman Kane wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 16:12 -0700, vehemens wrote:
> > > On Friday 15 August 2008 07:41:27 am Coleman Kane wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > Do you host any of the patches publicly right now? I'd be more than
> > > > happy to test them out and see how well they work with my RS690. Right
> > > > now my GPU is unusable for EXA or DRI using xf86-video-ati
> > > > (intermittently works) or xf86-video-radeonhd (never works, displays
> > > > artifacts, then screeches to a halt).
> > > > ...
> > >
> > > After thinking about your stability problems a bit more, xserver has
> > > recently received a number of EXA improvements, R500 MESA/DRM support is
> > > fairly recent, and the drivers are a moving target a well.  Few (none?)
> > > of these improvements are in the official FreeBSD src/ports trees.
> > >
> > > I'll send you a xf86-video-radeonhd tarball that I just created and
> > > tested with my HD 2660 PRO.  It may help, but I suspect that other parts
> > > of the X tree will need to be updated as well.
> >
> > I've been tracking the following masters from fd.o git:
> >
> > mesa/drm dri2proto fontsproto glproto inputproto kbproto libX11
> > libXdamage libXfont libXtst libxcb libxtrans mesa/mesa xorg-server
> > x11proto randrproto xcb-proto xextproto xf86driproto xproto libXext
> > libXi libXrandr libpciaccess libxkbfile libxkbui xf86-video-ati
> > xf86-video-radeonhd xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse
> 
> Interesting.  The list is a bit shorter then mine.  I don't see pixman as well 
> as a few others.  Not sure if it matters all that much.
> 
> When you update mesa, do you update both the dri and libGL ports?  Ditto for 
> libdrm and kernel drm?
> 
> Guess I'll checkout my builds on a RS690 and see what happens.

D'oh! Yeah, pixman should be included in that list too. I am tracking it
as well. I can't get very far on the latest X.org without it!

-- 
Coleman Kane
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