Rawhide and ATI R3xx?

[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