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[Mike A. Harris]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

>> Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
>> OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
>
>One thing I'm willing to test is 3D support for Radeon IGM cards (like
>the one on my laptop). Since you're an XFree maintainer at RH, could you
>help me test it without seriously breaking FC?

Radeon IGP 3D support is not present in XFree86, including the 
upcoming 4.4.0 release.  It is present only in DRI-CVS as 
experimental support which is in a developmental state.

I do not have Radeon IGP hardware and do not generally use 
DRI-CVS except to cvs rdiff out bug fixes occasionally, and to 
occasionally check in bug fixes.

The DRI project website has a lot of both developer and end user 
documentation on using DRI-CVS as well as binary driver 
snapshots.  I can't help you directly to get it working, but if 
you follow the documentation and/or ask for help on the DRI 
mailing lists, someone might be able to help you to get it to 
work.

Also, since I often get asked - I have no plans of including this
into our XFree86 until it is considered stable and mainstream.  
With the current flux going on over at XFree86.org right now, it 
isn't even clear wether XFree86 will exist in a few months or 
not, so it could be a while before this is supported.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat