[gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

[gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

[fire-eyes]

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 .

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.

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

[Donnie Berkholz]

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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 .
> 
> 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.

There are one or two patches to Mesa post-6.5 that fix PCIE support, I
think by Dave Airlie (airlied). If you'd like to find them, I would be
happy to add them to the ebuild. Just file a request bug with a pointer
to the patch.

Thanks,
Donnie


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

[Ryan Tandy]

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

[Richard Fish]

On 7/7/06, Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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... ;)

How about googleearth?  Have you tried it?

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

[Ryan Tandy]

Richard Fish wrote:
> 
> How about googleearth?  Have you tried it?
> 
> -Richard

Haven't, sorry.  May do when I get a moment though.
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Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

[fire-eyes]

On Friday 07 July 2006 21:51, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> 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.

Hm. I had VIDEO_CARDS at radeon already, however, I am curious about the 
video_cards_radeon USE flag. I set this and an emerge -Np xorg-x11 doesn't 
show anything. What listens to that USE flag?

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

[Ryan Tandy]

fire-eyes wrote:
> On Friday 07 July 2006 21:51, Ryan Tandy wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hm. I had VIDEO_CARDS at radeon already, however, I am curious about the 
> video_cards_radeon USE flag. I set this and an emerge -Np xorg-x11 doesn't 
> show anything. What listens to that USE flag?
> 

VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" implies USE="video_cards_radeon" (a nifty Portage 
feature called USE_EXPAND).  Depending on your xorg-x11 version and 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS:

for ~arch (~x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1), xorg-server and mesa are the ones 
that use it.

for arch (~x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0), it's the xorg-x11 ebuild itself that 
has it.

If you're running ~arch, installing 7.0 will still pull in the newer, 
~arch mesa and xorg-server, so all 3 ebuilds will have the flag.  I'm 
not sure how well this configuration works.

And when I said emerge -N xorg-x11 in my original mail, it should have 
been emerge -ND xorg-x11, so that xorg-server and mesa get updated with 
the new flag as well.  On the other hand, if you already have it set, 
nothing will be rebuilt.

Have you checked that your xorg.conf is set to use that driver?  Also, 
I've never owned a PCIe system, so I don't know what support for that is 
like.  As always, YMMV ;)
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