Summary: | x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati 6.12 requires a higher drm level | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ed Tomlinson <edt> |
Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | ansla80, battousai, Jens.Rutschmann, x11-drivers |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
starting X with kernel drm and radeon modules
starting X with mesa drm and radeon modules - dri is active |
Description
Ed Tomlinson
2009-03-15 04:45:16 UTC
Hi, I've got a couple of questions. First, could you attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log from a failed attempt? Second, does it work fine if you already have xorg.conf, and what happens if you just run startx without xorg.conf (instead of X -configure)? I've been having some fun here. Looks like xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 changes the picture a bit (it might also have been a dangling fglrx module in /lib64/modules...). Now I can start X without the mesa drm modules built and X -configure works though it chooses the radeonhd module instead of radeon. I can even start it no xorg.conf. Doing so uses the radeon moudule but sets a bad keymap. I do not use evdev. I've yet to see clean instructions on how to configue keymaps with hal... With the kernel drm I do not get exa or xv. This means displaying video takes 30% of my cpu vs less than 5% with the mesa drm modules. I've attached two xorg logs. One with mesa drm and one with kernel drm. With the kernel drm dri is not activiated, it is with mesa drm. Ed Created attachment 185368 [details]
starting X with kernel drm and radeon modules
Created attachment 185369 [details]
starting X with mesa drm and radeon modules - dri is active
You have to use live mesa and drm to benefit from the features. Otherwise you can use the driver quite fine for the r500 and lower. We cant release/fix something that is not ready. The drm capable of running r600/r700 hw is planed to hit 2.6.30 if everything goes smoothly. As sidenote i play with it (r600 and live drm and mesa) and it is shaping quite well :] |