State of video-ati nowadays?

[Robert Noland]

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 15:42 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 2008/7/27 Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org>:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 07:11 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> >> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:35:15 +0200
> >> Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > After a long time, I tried booting X on a machine with Radeon X1600.
> >> > With the "vesa" driver it works fine, though slow in the usual
> >> > operations (compositing, transparency). I upgraded the ati driver to
> >> > the latest (6.9) and, while it managed to start, it was extraordinary
> >> > slow (much slower than vesa) and had a funny bug in Xfce Terminal,
> >> > where the "black" color of characters in the terminal would become
> >> > transparent, showing pixels underneath the window.
> >> >
> >> > Is this normal (i.e. the driver still doesn't support the card) or am
> >> > I doing something wrong? The xorg.conf is plain and boring, without
> >> > any special tuning, the dri and radeon kernel modules are loaded.
> >> > This is on 8-CURRENT.
> >>
> >> To get decent 2D acceleration, you need an updated DRM from freedesktop
> >> git.  To get 3D acceleration, you need an updated Mesa from freedesktop
> >> git.  And, finally, to get working AIGLX, you need an updated xserver
> >> from freedesktop git :-)
> >>
> >> If you want to try that:
> >>
> >> http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git
> >
> > Note that git drm is slightly broken right now... I have a patch to
> > address the issue, but I haven't pushed it to git yet... Maybe
> > tomorrow...  Meanwhile, if you go this route, let me know and I'll send
> > you the patch.
> 
> Broken how? I've started the script from the wiki page and apparently
> git clones the repositories fine.

I introduced a bug a couple of days ago while trying to fix an issue.
My patch will require minor changes on the linux side, so I haven't
pushed it yet.

The patch is at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-fix-master.patch

robert.

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