support for latest (radeon) hardware

[Bob Arendt]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Yes that is what I've done too (revert back to F-9 Xorg), even though I've
>> been actively working with airlied (congrats with your kid once more) to
>> get things in shape for F-10 and I believe we are in ok shape wrt 2d in
>> F-10 3d is simply not usable in F-10, and since I maintain many games in
>> Fedora I need working 3d.
> 
> This highly depends on the hardware. My laptop has an Intel 965 chipset. In
> F9, several 3D apps/games were triggering an assertion failure in the
> driver, and all the others had awful performance. In F10 the crashes are
> gone and the apps/games are fast.
> 
Although there's now a single intel driver, for some of the older chipsets
(intel 845G) that *did* have acceleration + 3d under the old i810 driver F9,
it's now terribly broken - even 2d acceleration results in a hang:
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469292
That laptop's still stuck on F9, using a USB drive to test against rawhide.
-Bob