Re: graphic card support
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Aaron Stellman wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:52:43AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: DRI/DRM on OpenBSD works on recent intel chips (i855 and up) and on older ATI chips (r200/r300). Hello, I'm looking to get a X600 PCI-E card, which seems to be based on RV380 chipset, which is supposedly almost identical to other R3xx series, but use PCI-e instead. Do you have any idea whether DRI/DRM works on these? I've got a X1550 installed in one of my machines. Works, but I have to disable the IRQ assignment to the card. If I do not do this it will interfere with the NIC using the same IRQ. OpenGL is only version 1.3, I don't know if there is a difference in the X600 driver. Kind regards Markus
Re: graphic card support
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:48:48PM -0700, Aaron Stellman wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:29:20AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: my PCI-E x800 works perfectly. So probably. I thought that x800 series were based on R4xx chipsets. And based on Mattheu's response, only r200/r300 supported DRI/DRM. Could you please comment on that? Please see my reply to Matthieu. As the person who's writing the driver i'd hope I'd know what works. -0- -- Mencken and Nathan's Fifteenth Law of The Average American: The worst actress in the company is always the manager's wife.
Re: graphic card support
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:52:43 +0100 Matthieu Herrb mhe...@gmail.com wrote: Are there a list of graphic-chips where i could see which chipsets support the DRI/DRM-feature under OpenBSD? DRI/DRM on OpenBSD works on recent intel chips (i855 and up) and on older ATI chips (r200/r300). I don't know if the above was a typo or not, but I do *seem* to have DRI and DRM functioning properly with the i845 chipset. None the less, I'm uncertain if there is actually support for i845 in our DRM driver? I'm still tinkering and testing the new intel(4) driver with the i845 system but it seems I've isolated the major problem that makes X unusable on the i845. The short answer is the driver does Bad Things when you allow it to do DDC2. It works fine with DDC1 enabled. Shutting off DDC2 support solves just about all the problems. Option DDC2 false I do not understand why this works, by my current hunch is it has to do with the rescaling the new intel(4) driver does when faced with fixed resolution LCD's (discovered via DDC2). -- J.C. Roberts
Re: graphic card support
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:52:43AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: DRI/DRM on OpenBSD works on recent intel chips (i855 and up) and on older ATI chips (r200/r300). Hello, I'm looking to get a X600 PCI-E card, which seems to be based on RV380 chipset, which is supposedly almost identical to other R3xx series, but use PCI-e instead. Do you have any idea whether DRI/DRM works on these? Thanks
Re: graphic card support
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:37:23PM -0700, Aaron Stellman wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:52:43AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: DRI/DRM on OpenBSD works on recent intel chips (i855 and up) and on older ATI chips (r200/r300). Hello, I'm looking to get a X600 PCI-E card, which seems to be based on RV380 chipset, which is supposedly almost identical to other R3xx series, but use PCI-e instead. Do you have any idea whether DRI/DRM works on these? my PCI-E x800 works perfectly. So probably. -0- -- I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. -- Steven Wright
Re: graphic card support
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:29:20AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: my PCI-E x800 works perfectly. So probably. I thought that x800 series were based on R4xx chipsets. And based on Mattheu's response, only r200/r300 supported DRI/DRM. Could you please comment on that? Thanks
Re: graphic card support
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Jan Klemkow web2...@wemelug.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem to select right graphic cards for my OpenBSD systems. At the first machine I want to use 2 screens in dualhead mode. At the second machine I need a graphic card with 3D-acceleration. I have no idea where i could find information which card or chipset support this features. There is no reliable list of supported cards, because things changes too fast and the marketing stuff that put random names on boxes make the maintaince of such a list an almost impossible task. Are there a list of graphic-chips where i could see which chipsets support the DRI/DRM-feature under OpenBSD? DRI/DRM on OpenBSD works on recent intel chips (i855 and up) and on older ATI chips (r200/r300). Did the support depends in the xorg-driver or at the OpenBSD kernel implementation of DRI? It depends on 3 things: - support of it in Mesa - support for it in the xorg driver - support of it in the drm module in the kernel. For the first 2 points it's relatively OS neutral (there aren't too many OS dependant stuff there and its relatively easy to track upstreams releases). For the in-kernel driver there is a lot more work involved. Thanks to Owain OpenBSD has done a lot of progress in this area, but there are still chipsets that are not supported here because the kernel driver almost need a full rewrite to be adapted from Linux to the OpenBSD kernel. And also in Xorg and Mesa the only active developpement that is done is on Intel and ATI chips,. Other chips (VIA, and nVidia --nouveau--) are beeing worked on too, but a much slower rate mainly because of the lack of documentation. -- Matthieu Herrb