Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

[Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com>]

fire-eyes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am interested in getting my ATI X300 (r300 or r370, conflicting info out 
> there), which is a PCIe card, working with DRI with open source drivers. I am 
> using xorg-x11-7.1 .
> 
r370 is the chipset on the card, r300 is the (experimental) DRI driver 
that would be supporting it.

> Any ideas? I am specifically looking for ways of doing this not including 
> messing with overlays, that is a major pain, and (opinon) I shouldn't have to 
> do that anyway.
> 
Set VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" or USE="video_cards_radeon", and emerge -N 
xorg-x11.  Worked for me (Radeon 9600 XT) as of the first X -configure 
run, with no additional messing about.  The driver name is "radeon" if 
you like to do xorg.conf by hand.

Disclaimer: The DRI functionality is still experimental.  Some functions 
(specular lighting in particular) don't behave exactly as expected.  For 
example, a couple of XScreensaver hacks don't work quite right for me. 
Still a darn sight better than software, though... ;)

> Cheers.

HTH.
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