Re: radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???
Dne, 30. 01. 2010 16:32:02 je Joost Kraaijeveld napisal(a): Hi, Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration? That's a question I'm very much interested in too. I've always been under the impression that the radeon and radeonhd drivers only support basic 2D acceleration, and only for some cards. IIRC, 3D acceleration is still a trade secret for AMD. So the messy, buggy, tainted fglrx driver seems to still be the only solution for hard-core gaming ... -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 16:00, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 30. 01. 2010 16:32:02 je Joost Kraaijeveld napisal(a): >> >> Hi, >> >> Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration? > > That's a question I'm very much interested in too. I've always been under > the impression that the radeon and radeonhd drivers only support basic 2D > acceleration, and only for some cards. IIRC, 3D acceleration is still a > trade secret for AMD. AMD has published all 2d and 3d info for r100 through r700 (r800/5xxx is in the pipeline): http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ Here are the status pages for the two drivers: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeon http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd DRI2/KMS is theoretically usable with 2.6.32, Mesa 7.7, XServer 1.7 and the latest Radeon (not HD) drivers (possibly with some patches), but anything older is a no go. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???
Dne, 31. 01. 2010 03:52:01 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a): AMD has published all 2d and 3d info for r100 through r700 (r800/5xxx is in the pipeline): http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ I stand corrected. That's like music to my ears. DRI2/KMS is theoretically usable with 2.6.32, Mesa 7.7, XServer 1.7 and the latest Radeon (not HD) drivers (possibly with some patches), but anything older is a no go. Am I to understand that AMD released specs for their cutting-edge cards only, or just that the radeon and radeonhd developers don't have time, resources or interest in supporting older, obsolete equipment? -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:20, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 31. 01. 2010 03:52:01 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a): >> >> AMD has published all 2d and 3d info for r100 through r700 (r800/5xxx is >> in the pipeline): >> http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ > > I stand corrected. That's like music to my ears. > >> DRI2/KMS is theoretically usable with 2.6.32, Mesa 7.7, XServer 1.7 and >> the latest Radeon (not HD) drivers (possibly with some patches), but >> anything older is a no go. I should have said this bit applies to the Radeon HD 3850 and other recent cards. 3d support for older cards goes much further back. > Am I to understand that AMD released specs for their cutting-edge cards > only, or just that the radeon and radeonhd developers don't have time, > resources or interest in supporting older, obsolete equipment? No, Radeon has for some time fully supported 2d and 3d for r100 to r500; that is Radeon 7000 through 9000 series and x300 through x1950. Radeon HD 2xxx through Radeon HD 4xxx (r600 - r700) have more limited support at this time. All the specs for these have been released, but even with specs it takes time to make the drivers. For really old cards - Rage and Mach - documents have not been freely released, but 3d support was developed with docs provided to specific developers under NDA (predating AMD's 100% open attitude). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
