[CFT] drm updates

[vehemens]

On Friday 15 August 2008 06:05:13 pm Coleman Kane wrote:
> 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!

Almost all combinations of ddx/dri/drm drivers hangs my am64 box.

Did get X running by using the radeonhd and dri swrast drivers, as well as 
removing the other drivers.

System reports it has dri, but compiz or glgears doesn't run.

What combinations worked for you?