Re: Xorg/X11 driver Radeon: radeon vs. radeonhd, a mess!

Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:55:44 +0000
> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
>> Martin wrote:
>>> Am Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:08:54 +0200
>>> schrieb "O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> if you have problems with the radeonhd driver, you should tell the guys
>>> who work at it. They are really nice and try to help everywhere.
>>>
>>> Subscribe there:
>>> http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/
>>>
>>> I am only using radeonhd, because it works for me on all cards I have.
>>>
>>> I noticed that window movement may get choppy, when you compile a new
>>> kernel (DRM) and don't recompile a fresh radeonhd driver. This happens
>>> especially when DRI is enabled for your xorg server.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Martin
>> As far as I know, radeonhd from ports doesn't work with DRI enabled on 
>> FreeBSD - so it doesn't work on my box either. I guess you're following 
>> the recommendations using the development brnach directly from GIT.
>>
> 
> Works for me on amd64 8-current.
> 
> garyj:ernst:~:-bash:4> grep DRI /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
> (II) Loading extension DRI2
> (**) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI"
> (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Back Buffer at offset 0x024B4000 (size = 0x00B13000)
> (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Depth Buffer at offset 0x02FC7000 (size = 0x00B13000)
> (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Textures at offset 0x03ADA000 (size = 0x0C400000)
> (II) RADEONHD(0): [DRI] installation complete
> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
> garyj:ernst:~:-bash:5> ls -d /var/db/pkg/*radeon*
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Apr 14 11:32 /var/db/pkg/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel-1.2.5.20090412
> 
>

Tried radeonhd-devel and failed also!

When enabling DRI in config file, I see the XDM login box and the box 
crashes and freezes immediately. Without DRI radeonhd-devel is horrible 
slow when moving windows around - inacceptable. It doesn't matter 
whether EXA is enabled or not and the phenomenon ist the same as with 
the regular radeonhd-driver from xorg-drivers.

I'm back with the VESA driver.