On Jan 8, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Jason Self schreef: >> On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Dmitry Samoyloff <dsamoyl...@yandex.ru> wrote: >>> Jason Self wrote: >>>> I have RV620. >>> >>> OK, it's R600 family. >>> >>>> After it arrived I found that support for RV620 didn't appear in >>>> radeonhd until version 1.2 and the version in the gNewSense >>>> repositories was too old. >>>> >>>> A quick compile later and I had a fully functional video card. The 2D >>>> performance is just fine and I find X to be very snappy. Even my 1080p >>>> videos play well (they're using Theora and that codec admittedly isn't >>>> very demanding in the first place.) >>> >>> Do you have XVideo working (you may check it using "xvinfo" command)? If >>> your >>> video playback is smooth, I suppose you have it. R600 have only textured Xv, >>> therefore it needs accelerated OpenGL working also. Recompiling driver isn't >>> enough for that, you'd need the latest Mesa and latest DRM (direct rendering >>> manager) module for Radeons. >>> >>> The latter contains blobs. It located either in Linux (starting from 2.6.32) >>> or in Mesa/Xorg. 3D acceleration wouldn't work on R600 with deblobbed >>> software. If you have accelerated 3D working (it could be checked seeing >>> "glxinfo | grep OpenGL" output) then your system is using ATI blobs. >> I can check when I get home on the 17th. All I did was compile radeonhd from >> source (version 1.2.5, I think. I haven't bothered to upgrade to 1.3.0) and >> then modify my X config to use radeonhd instead. It was nice to see my LCD >> panel run at full resolution. There aren't any blobs, unless the act of >> compiling radeonhd somehow pulled in extra software over the net without my >> knowledge. > > This would be interesting to know. I've heard from a Nouveau developer that > Nouveau was nearing blob-free status, but that radeon(hd) still has blobs > that have something to do with microcode and that there are no (short term) > plans to get rid of those. I haven't verified or investigated this in any > way, though.
So I am back from my vacation now. $ xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present $ glxinfo | grep OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2) OpenGL extensions: I started with the normal gNewSense 2.3 install & the only thing I did was: wget http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/snapshot/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5.tar.bz2 Followed by the usual... ./autogen.sh make make install And then edit my X config to use radeonhd. So have I been using binary blobs without realizing it? I haven't upgraded to 1.3 yet. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
