From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENtb9-00034d-EV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:53:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j97EhOpT015550; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:43:24 GMT Received: from maceio.ic.unicamp.br (maceio.ic.unicamp.br [143.106.7.31]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j97EbJxH016811 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:37:20 GMT Received: from brasilia.ic.unicamp.br (brasilia.ic.unicamp.br [143.106.7.34]) by maceio.ic.unicamp.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j97Ek5m12767 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:05 -0300 Received: from localhost (goiania.ic.unicamp.br [143.106.7.22]) by brasilia.ic.unicamp.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A377E23 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:05 -0300 (BRST) Received: from brasilia.ic.unicamp.br ([143.106.7.34]) by localhost (goiania.ic.unicamp.br [143.106.7.22]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32562-19 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:07 -0300 (BRST) Received: from belem.ic.unicamp.br (belem.ic.unicamp.br [143.106.7.39]) by brasilia.ic.unicamp.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1559A7E22 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:05 -0300 (BRST) Received: from belem.ic.unicamp.br (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by belem.ic.unicamp.br (8.13.1/8.13.2) with ESMTP id j97Ek7IZ012651 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:07 -0300 Received: (from ra016681@localhost) by belem.ic.unicamp.br (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j97Ek6On012650 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:06 -0300 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:46:06 -0300 From: Luis Felipe Strano Moraes To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About ATI drivers in X.org 7 Message-ID: <20051007144606.GB11218@belem.ic.unicamp.br> References: <4346199F.3010404@maestroprogramador.com> <43464591.8020308@planet.nl> <93f85fee0510070558x60353a5ex@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <93f85fee0510070558x60353a5ex@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ic.unicamp.br Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j97EhOpm015550 X-Archives-Salt: 24112c2c-2a6e-4526-ac0d-e650b5eb4090 X-Archives-Hash: 4b3c5a3bf0a6402405c72dd66baad7b1 There's a question on the forums about this, and they=20 explain there how toi install it. It only needs to=20 unmask xorg-x11 6.8.99 and install one package from the new modular ones. Search there for more help. I'm going to buy myself a Radeon 9600 this weekend mainly because of the free software drivers. hth, --lf On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:58:32PM +0200, Rafael Fern=E1ndez L=F3pez wrot= e: > Well, my opinion was (and is) to wait. You aren't losing anything and > you're winning stability. Sorry, I meant X.org 7 instead of X.org. > Obviously, I knew that X.org is in portage !! ;) >=20 > Bye and thanks !! >=20 > 2005/10/7, Holly Bostick : > > Rafael Fern=E1ndez L=F3pez schreef: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've read something somewhere that have amazed me... Is X.org > > > developing new ATI drivers, better far from ATI.com ? > > > > Yes and no... I think what you're talking about is most likely the op= en > > source r300 drivers (similar in effect to the open source 'radeon' > > kernel drivers that are available for the 9500 and below). > > > > More information can be found on these drivers here: > > > > http://r300.sourceforge.net/R300.php > > > > As far as I know, although the r300 project's code is available to X.= org > > (and in fact has been accepted into the CVS tree), the project itself= is not > > associated with, or rather is separate from, the X.org project itself. > > > > > > > > If that's affirmative... We will be able to use Damage extension (a= nd > > > Composite extension) with ati rendering ? > > > > No idea, since I don't know what the Damage extension is/does, and af= aik > > the Composite extension is not yet complete or stable, so it doesn't > > 'matter' whether it works atm-- ATI themselves don't want to 'waste' > > resources on supporting Composite until it's done, so I can't imagine > > that the Open Source project is going to focus on it yet either (havi= ng > > less resources and information than ATI themselves). > > > > > > > > And when is X.org going to be able on portage ? > > > > As noted on the r300 site, 'The latest source code is available direc= tly > > from Xorg, Mesa and DRM CVS trees.' > > > > I would assume that 'the Xorg, Mesa and DRM CVS trees' are the > > development trees for modular X.org (X.org 7, is that?). > > > > Ebuilds for these are available in Portage, they're just hard-masked. > > Myself, I'm not prepared to touch them with a 20-foot/metre pole, but > > perhaps you are. > > > > If not, then it would be better to wait until upstream stabilizes a > > release, and the ebuilds stabilize to at least ~arch. Perhaps the Xor= g > > site has a target date for the next release; I haven't looked. I woul= d > > at least imagine that their development mailing list would give a bet= ter > > idea as to how close to release they might be. > > > > I'm happy to wait, but that's just my opinion, and it's your choice w= hat > > you decide to do. > > > > HTH, > > Holly > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > >=20 >=20 > -- > Saludos, > Rafael Fern=E1ndez L=F3pez. >=20 > "A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" > - Linus Torvalds >=20 > --=20 > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list