Radeon DRIVER

[Alex]

Hi Robert,

Is there a patch for 7-STABLE yet? I am really keen to have proper XV 
support so I can watch my movies full screen rather than in a tiny box. 
My card is a Radeon 2400HD (RV610)

Thanks!


Robert Noland wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 22:23 +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
>   
>> Aragon Gouveia wrote:
>>     
>>> Robert Noland wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:33 +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Patch output is pasted below.  The unsuccessful hunk in radeon_cp.c I 
>>>>> wedged in by hand.  In a few hours I hope to report on the results of 
>>>>> upgrading to Xorg 7.4 and latest radeonhd-devel.  Running Xorg 7.3 
>>>>> and video-ati-6.9.0 at the moment.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> On -STABLE you also need the "Move vblank_init to load time" patch
>>>> first.  That will make the patch fail on the i915 driver, but if you
>>>> aren't using that one, it should be ok, as long as it compiles.  I'll
>>>> merge all of this within a couple of weeks.
>>>>         
>
> Try this...
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-7-synced-to-HEAD-030909.patch
>
> robert.
>
>   
>>> I'll grab the vblank patch before going further with the Xorg and 
>>> radeonhd upgrade.  Thanks!
>>>       
>> I have applied both kernel patches, recompiled, rebooted, upgraded to 
>> Xorg 7.4, upgraded to radeonhd-devel from ports.  The kernel is still 
>> seeing my card:
>>
>> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 
>> 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xe0200000-0xe020ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
>> drm0: <ATI Radeon HD 3450> on vgapci0
>> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
>> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080528
>>
>> Enabling DRI and Exa in xorg.conf causes my display to go blank during X 
>> startup and I'm left with no other way out except hitting my power 
>> button and shutting down.
>>
>> Enabling Exa with DRI disabled is wildly slow.
>>
>> Leaving both disabled works fine, but no Xv. :)
>>
>> Please let me know if I can provide more info to debug this.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aragon
>>
>>