Rawhide and ATI R3xx?

[Chris Adams]

What is the word on the latest X builds and the ATI R300 DRI driver?
I'm (finally!) going to have some time to test rawhide, and since my
notebook (Thinkpad Z60m) is one that locked up hard when loading it
(before it was disabled for FC5), I figured I'd take a look in that
direction.

Basically, has anything changed since FC5 - is it enabled, might it work
(or at least not kill my system)?  If it isn't currently enabled, how
can I go about testing it to see if it has improved?

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net&gt;
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

[Sean]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:37:44 -0500
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net&gt; wrote:

>  What is the word on the latest X builds and the ATI R300 DRI driver?
>  I'm (finally!) going to have some time to test rawhide, and since my
>  notebook (Thinkpad Z60m) is one that locked up hard when loading it
>  (before it was disabled for FC5), I figured I'd take a look in that
>  direction.
>  
>  Basically, has anything changed since FC5 - is it enabled, might it work
>  (or at least not kill my system)?  If it isn't currently enabled, how
>  can I go about testing it to see if it has improved? 
It's currently enabled in Rawhide and is working well here with a X700.
Did have to disable hardware cursor support though as the cursor display
was corrupted.

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)]"
        Option      "DDCMode" "on"
        Option      "MergedFB" "off"
        Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
        Option      "SWcursor" "on"
EndSection

Sean

[Adam Jackson]

Chris Adams wrote:
>  What is the word on the latest X builds and the ATI R300 DRI driver?
>  I'm (finally!) going to have some time to test rawhide, and since my
>  notebook (Thinkpad Z60m) is one that locked up hard when loading it
>  (before it was disabled for FC5), I figured I'd take a look in that
>  direction.
>  
>  Basically, has anything changed since FC5 - is it enabled, might it work
>  (or at least not kill my system)?  If it isn't currently enabled, how
>  can I go about testing it to see if it has improved? 
R300 DRI support is enabled in rawhide, and I'm loathe to turn it off 
again, feels like running away from the problem.  WFM on an X800 (yes, 
it works for R400 series cards too).  There's been some fixes in CVS but 
they're tough to backport individually, I'm mostly waiting for a new 
Mesa release before that can happen.

More broadly about the radeon support: Rawhide's radeon driver is 
unpatched 6.6.0, which is the version included in Xorg 7.1.  FC5 however 
went out with 6.5.7.3 and currently has 6.5.8 in either updates or 
updates-testing, I forget which.  6.6.0 is better in most cases I've 
found.  I probably won't be able to backport it to FC5 without also 
backporting 7.1, which might be an unpopular move - new ABI in 7.1 
breaks fglrx, etc.

The plan I'm currently considering is to push 7.1 to FC5 updates-testing 
at the same time as FC6 test1.  I'm open to suggestions on the 
scheduling there though.

- ajax

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Adam Jackson írta:
>  Chris Adams wrote:
> > What is the word on the latest X builds and the ATI R300 DRI driver?
> > I'm (finally!) going to have some time to test rawhide, and since my
> > notebook (Thinkpad Z60m) is one that locked up hard when loading it
> > (before it was disabled for FC5), I figured I'd take a look in that
> > direction.
> >
> > Basically, has anything changed since FC5 - is it enabled, might it work
> > (or at least not kill my system)?  If it isn't currently enabled, how
> > can I go about testing it to see if it has improved?
>
>  R300 DRI support is enabled in rawhide, and I'm loathe to turn it off 
>  again, feels like running away from the problem.  WFM on an X800 (yes, 
>  it works for R400 series cards too).  There's been some fixes in CVS 
>  but they're tough to backport individually, I'm mostly waiting for a 
>  new Mesa release before that can happen.
>
>  More broadly about the radeon support: Rawhide's radeon driver is 
>  unpatched 6.6.0, which is the version included in Xorg 7.1.  FC5 
>  however went out with 6.5.7.3 and currently has 6.5.8 in either 
>  updates or updates-testing, I forget which.  6.6.0 is better in most 
>  cases I've found.  I probably won't be able to backport it to FC5 
>  without also backporting 7.1, which might be an unpopular move - new 
>  ABI in 7.1 breaks fglrx, etc.
>
>  The plan I'm currently considering is to push 7.1 to FC5 
>  updates-testing at the same time as FC6 test1.  I'm open to 
>  suggestions on the scheduling there though. 
If you do that then please use the CVS radeon driver (post 6.6.0)
as it has important bugfixes. Unfortunately, they haven't done
a release for a longish time. The version string in 6.6.0 still
indicates 6.5.7 which the CVS version also fixes.

Best regards,
Zoltán  Böszörményi

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Chris Adams wrote:
>  What is the word on the latest X builds and the ATI R300 DRI driver?
>  I'm (finally!) going to have some time to test rawhide, and since my
>  notebook (Thinkpad Z60m) is one that locked up hard when loading it
>  (before it was disabled for FC5), I figured I'd take a look in that
>  direction.
>  
>  Basically, has anything changed since FC5 - is it enabled, might it work
>  (or at least not kill my system)?  If it isn't currently enabled, how
>  can I go about testing it to see if it has improved?
>   
The stuff in Rawhide works fine on my R300 card (9500pro). Unfortunately 
the fglrx driver doesn't work due to the xorg api changes and the xorg r300 
driver doesn't work with the aiglx bling so I'm running a plain xcompmgr 
setup right now which at least prevents the gtk artifacts when 
moving/resizing windows.

Regards,
   Dennis