State of video-ati nowadays?

[Robert Noland]

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.

robert.

> Adam
> 
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