Radeon DRIVER

[Robert Noland]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:30 +1100, Alex wrote:
> Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 18:07 +1100, Alex wrote:
> >   
> >> Disabling DRI in xorg.conf seems to give me back a fast display again...
> >>
> >> I am using the radeonhd driver ver 1.2.4 (xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.4)
> >>     
> >
> > I really kind of reccommend the git radeonhd driver if you want to
> > play... This is all really new code.  I tested with the ati and radeonhd
> > drivers from git.  EXA worked on both, Xv worked on the ati driver, but
> > the video wasn't synced, it played too fast.  With radeonhd from git,
> > everything seemed good.
> >
> > robert.
> >
> >   
> GIT wont build... :/

In order to build from git, you need 3 things.
devel/git, devel/autotools and devel/xorg-macros.

git clone the driver repo.
./autogen.sh
make
make install

robert.

> 
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/root/xf86-video-radeonhd/utils/conntest'
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link /usr/local/bin/gcc43 
> -I/usr/local/include/xorg -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 
> -I/usr/local/include   -I/usr/local/include    -Wall -Wextra 
> -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror-implicit-function-declaration 
> -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-overflow -Wpointer-arith -Woverlength-strings 
> -Wvolatile-register-var -Winit-self -Wbad-function-cast 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wnested-externs 
> -Wdisabled-optimization  -O3 -finline-functions   -o rhd_conntest  
> rhd_conntest.o  -lpci -lz
> /usr/local/bin/gcc43 -I/usr/local/include/xorg 
> -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include 
> -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter 
> -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-aliasing 
> -Wstrict-overflow -Wpointer-arith -Woverlength-strings 
> -Wvolatile-register-var -Winit-self -Wbad-function-cast 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wnested-externs 
> -Wdisabled-optimization -O3 -finline-functions -o rhd_conntest 
> rhd_conntest.o  -lpci -lz
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpci
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[3]: *** [rhd_conntest] Error 1
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/root/xf86-video-radeonhd/utils/conntest'
> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/root/xf86-video-radeonhd/utils/conntest'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/xf86-video-radeonhd'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> [root at desktop ~/xf86-video-radeonhd]# ls -l /var/db/pkg |grep pci
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb 21 11:40 libpci-2.2.8_1
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb 19 11:13 libpciaccess-0.10.5_4
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb 19 10:16 pciids-20081012
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 11 23:18 pciutils-3.0.3
> 
> What could I be missing?
> 
> The configure gives some suspicious activity:
> 
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) 
> yes                                              
> checking for PCIUTILS... 
> no                                                                   
> configure: WARNING: libpci not registered in pkgconfig, will guess 
> instead                    
> checking pci/pci.h usability... 
> yes                                                           
> checking pci/pci.h presence... 
> yes                                                            
> checking for pci/pci.h... 
> yes                                                                 
> checking whether XSERVER_LIBPCIACCESS is declared... 
> yes                                      
> checking for PCIACCESS... 
> yes                                                                 
> checking whether to enable EXA support... yes
> 
> Any ideas?? Googling for an answer hasnt helped
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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