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

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:07:59 +0000
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> 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.

Hmm.  Are the drm and radeondrm in your kernel up-to-date?  Your posting
was chopped by the first replier and I can't remember.

Can't think of anything else.

I personally don't use xdm/gdm/kdm.  I just use startx.

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Gary Jennejohn