On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 01:49:12PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > I went ahead and merged the Radeon R6/7xx code to -STABLE a while ago. > > The current xorg drivers will not enable it by default on R600+ chips. > You will need to be using xf86-video-ati-6.12.0, > xf86-video-radeonhd-devel or possibly even better git master of either. > > You will need to add the following to the Device section of your > xorg.conf to enable it. If you are experiencing issues, commenting > these two options out, will prevent Xorg from auto-loading the kernel > module. > > Options "DRI" > Options "AccelMethod" "EXA"
With this code and ati 6.12.0, I get the awful performance. Kernel says drm0: <ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT> on vgapci0 vgapci0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x18 type 3 at 0xd0020000 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080528 vgapci0: Reserved 0x10000000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xc0000000 info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map error: [drm:pid1494:r600_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Need gart offset from userspace Then, the Xorg.0.log ... (II) RADEON(0): [drm] register handle = 0xd0020000 (II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized (II) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (II) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x00df00c0 0x00df00c0 (II) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x003f0000 (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xc731d000 at 0x286fd000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Closed DRM master. (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed ...
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