kern/60474: Temporary fix for DRM support for Radeon 9200
Mikhail Teterin
mi+mxmoz at aldan.algebra.com
Fri Oct 8 15:20:33 PDT 2004
The following reply was made to PR kern/60474; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxmoz at aldan.algebra.com>
To: Eric Anholt <eta at lclark.edu>
Cc: gnats <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.ORG>, dotz at irc.pl,
DRI <dri-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: kern/60474: Temporary fix for DRM support for Radeon 9200
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:14:37 -0400
Eric Anholt wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 11:17, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
>
>>Hi, Eric!
>>
>>Can this be assigned back to you? I have another pair of PCI IDs,
>>BTW, and I am sure, there are people with shiny new Radeon-9800 out
>>there too... Yours,
>>
>>
>
>This is not a bug. The DRM does not support r300-series hardware.
>Among other things, trying to initialize it with r100 or r200 microcode
>will probably make it explode in your face. Now, if this was part of an
>attempt at getting http://r300.sf.net/ stuff working on FreeBSD, that'd
>be another thing :)
>
No, nothing exploded, but the Xorg server insists on NOT using direct
rendering on Radeon-9500/9700 cards.
Which is me :-( The card works fine and I got it to work in dual-head
mode, but OpenGL performance remains miserable.
Not sure, if upgrading to Xorg-7.8.1 would help me, but eager to try.
Would you have diffs for the ports? Thanks!
-mi
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