On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 15:14, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Eric Anholt wrote: > > >On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 11:17, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, Eric! > >> > >>Can this be assigned back to you? I have another pair of PCI IDs, > >>BTW, and I am sure, there are people with shiny new Radeon-9800 out > >>there too... Yours, > >> > >> > > > >This is not a bug. The DRM does not support r300-series hardware. > >Among other things, trying to initialize it with r100 or r200 microcode > >will probably make it explode in your face. Now, if this was part of an > >attempt at getting http://r300.sf.net/ stuff working on FreeBSD, that'd > >be another thing :) > > > No, nothing exploded, but the Xorg server insists on NOT using direct > rendering on Radeon-9500/9700 cards. > Which is me :-( The card works fine and I got it to work in dual-head > mode, but OpenGL performance remains miserable. > > Not sure, if upgrading to Xorg-7.8.1 would help me, but eager to try. > Would you have diffs for the ports? Thanks!
There is no open-source DRI driver for the r300 (9500+) series cards, which is why the X Server doesn't try to enable DRI. r300.sf.net is a project to work on that, but they aren't to the point of accelerating anything yet afaik -- just REing. (also, 6.8.1 is the latest X.Org release) -- Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
