Re: [Dri-devel] Want to help enable DRI on multiple-head cfg's
I don't know what's involved in making the DRI work on multiple physical graphics cards, but if you want HW accelerated 3D on a dualheaded radeon card check out my mergedfb patch: http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276 I'm not sure you'll be able to get dual independant 3D accelerated heads from a dualheaded card since there is only one 3D engine. I don't know if it could be made to work with things like different color depths. Then there is the issue of 2 heads fighting for the same graphics engine. there would have to be some sort of coordination. perhaps you could somehow make the second head a 3D client of the first? I could be wrong though; I'm still learning the 3D side of things. Actually htinking about it more, you could take the mergedfb code and rearrange it a bit to give the impression of being two separate independant heads, but actually sharing a framebuffer on the backend. just divide the big frambeuffer into two virtual framebuffers that corresponded to each independant head. I think both heads would have to be the same color depth. Alex --- Andreakis, Dean (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to help enable DRI for multiple head configurations but I need a little direction to get started. I understand from previous postings and comments I have seen in the source that DRI is currently disabled in multiple head cfg's because of sync. problems but I am not sure of the exact technical meaning of this. My development platform is an iBook w/ an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500, Debian (sid)(2.4.19 kernel), XFree86 v4.3.0 and Michael Danzer's DRI trunk. I did some initial work on the 2D radeon driver to enable dual independent heads and this works ok for now. I then backed-off to just the internal panel and using Michael's DRI trunk got DRI enabled. Now I would like to take the last step and get DRI going w/ this dual independent head configuration. I am not sure what modules to start looking at for this effort...i.e. are the changes required in the XFree86 3D drivers in xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/radeon/ and/or in the kernel-mode drm modules in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/. Also, some direction from a design standpoint and hints/tips on where to look would be useful. -dean andreakis __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
RE: [Dri-devel] Want to help enable DRI on multiple-head cfg's
Alex, Thanks for the information. I will look thru the mergedfb patch code asap. I think your idea of sharing one framebuffer as 2 virtual fb's could work...thanks! -dean andreakis -Original Message- From: Alex Deucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:27 PM To: Andreakis, Dean (MED); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Want to help enable DRI on multiple-head cfg's I don't know what's involved in making the DRI work on multiple physical graphics cards, but if you want HW accelerated 3D on a dualheaded radeon card check out my mergedfb patch: http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276 I'm not sure you'll be able to get dual independant 3D accelerated heads from a dualheaded card since there is only one 3D engine. I don't know if it could be made to work with things like different color depths. Then there is the issue of 2 heads fighting for the same graphics engine. there would have to be some sort of coordination. perhaps you could somehow make the second head a 3D client of the first? I could be wrong though; I'm still learning the 3D side of things. Actually htinking about it more, you could take the mergedfb code and rearrange it a bit to give the impression of being two separate independant heads, but actually sharing a framebuffer on the backend. just divide the big frambeuffer into two virtual framebuffers that corresponded to each independant head. I think both heads would have to be the same color depth. Alex --- Andreakis, Dean (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to help enable DRI for multiple head configurations but I need a little direction to get started. I understand from previous postings and comments I have seen in the source that DRI is currently disabled in multiple head cfg's because of sync. problems but I am not sure of the exact technical meaning of this. My development platform is an iBook w/ an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500, Debian (sid)(2.4.19 kernel), XFree86 v4.3.0 and Michael Danzer's DRI trunk. I did some initial work on the 2D radeon driver to enable dual independent heads and this works ok for now. I then backed-off to just the internal panel and using Michael's DRI trunk got DRI enabled. Now I would like to take the last step and get DRI going w/ this dual independent head configuration. I am not sure what modules to start looking at for this effort...i.e. are the changes required in the XFree86 3D drivers in xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/radeon/ and/or in the kernel-mode drm modules in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/. Also, some direction from a design standpoint and hints/tips on where to look would be useful. -dean andreakis __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
RE: [Dri-devel] Want to help enable DRI on multiple-head cfg's
you might want to move the framebuffer info up to the entity level and then move the initialization of the DRI to the entity level rather than the pScrn level. then when the individual pScrns map set up their framebuffers and initialize the dri, it would basically just be a call to some resource manager that would allocate a chunk of framebuffer for that head. individual pScrn DRI initializations would just be stubb functions. stuff like pixmap caches and such could get hairy... Alex --- Andreakis, Dean (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, Thanks for the information. I will look thru the mergedfb patch code asap. I think your idea of sharing one framebuffer as 2 virtual fb's could work...thanks! -dean andreakis -Original Message- From: Alex Deucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:27 PM To: Andreakis, Dean (MED); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Want to help enable DRI on multiple-head cfg's I don't know what's involved in making the DRI work on multiple physical graphics cards, but if you want HW accelerated 3D on a dualheaded radeon card check out my mergedfb patch: http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276 I'm not sure you'll be able to get dual independant 3D accelerated heads from a dualheaded card since there is only one 3D engine. I don't know if it could be made to work with things like different color depths. Then there is the issue of 2 heads fighting for the same graphics engine. there would have to be some sort of coordination. perhaps you could somehow make the second head a 3D client of the first? I could be wrong though; I'm still learning the 3D side of things. Actually htinking about it more, you could take the mergedfb code and rearrange it a bit to give the impression of being two separate independant heads, but actually sharing a framebuffer on the backend. just divide the big frambeuffer into two virtual framebuffers that corresponded to each independant head. I think both heads would have to be the same color depth. Alex --- Andreakis, Dean (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to help enable DRI for multiple head configurations but I need a little direction to get started. I understand from previous postings and comments I have seen in the source that DRI is currently disabled in multiple head cfg's because of sync. problems but I am not sure of the exact technical meaning of this. My development platform is an iBook w/ an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500, Debian (sid)(2.4.19 kernel), XFree86 v4.3.0 and Michael Danzer's DRI trunk. I did some initial work on the 2D radeon driver to enable dual independent heads and this works ok for now. I then backed-off to just the internal panel and using Michael's DRI trunk got DRI enabled. Now I would like to take the last step and get DRI going w/ this dual independent head configuration. I am not sure what modules to start looking at for this effort...i.e. are the changes required in the XFree86 3D drivers in xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/radeon/ and/or in the kernel-mode drm modules in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/. Also, some direction from a design standpoint and hints/tips on where to look would be useful. -dean andreakis __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
