State of video-ati nowadays?

[Ivan Voras]

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.