Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Martin Spott
Ville Syrj?l? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:48:38PM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: there's also this driver: http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de:8000/linux/G450-PCI/ I'm not sure how the G4/550 and G200 differ in regard to PCI vs. AGP... AFAIK G450 PCI cards have an

Re: [Dri-devel] mga anisotropic filtering

2003-10-16 Thread Keith Whitwell
Ville Syrjälä wrote: My previous comment on irc about anisotropic filtering needing two mip levels was crap. Fortunately I've since managed to figure out the real details. The good news is that G550 doesn't have any problems with anisotropic filtering. The bad news is that G4x0 chips need both

Re: [Dri-devel] Major mergedFB rework committed to CVS

2003-10-16 Thread Martin Spott
Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can switch back to the old order in the mean time, however, I'm not sure if it is any more or less reliable than the current code. both work fine on my hardware. I just rebuilt the stuff with a CVS checkout from one hour before now. When I do _not_

Re: [Dri-devel] Major mergedFB rework committed to CVS

2003-10-16 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
Yeah, I've noticed that as well. If I only comment out the lines regarding MergedFB, it still assumes I want to use MergedFB. I need to explicity tell it not to. Adam On 16 Oct 2003, Martin Spott wrote: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can switch back to the old order in the mean

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:08, Jon Smirl wrote: Same patch again with Matrox PCI IDs fixed and a linux-2.4 port. The patches are almost identical. Both against current bitkeeper source. Can people in the know please check the PCI IDs for the other hardware? I'm fairly sure Radeon, Rage128, and

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:49, Roland Scheidegger wrote: And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs version of july? I wonder if it could be related to recent 2D driver

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:51:20PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:49, Roland Scheidegger wrote: And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs

[Dri-devel] Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 08:36, Alex Deucher wrote: Log message: Clean up of the mode validation code for MergedFB. Does it behave the same as pre-MergedFB by default now? Also enable MergedFB autoconfig which will automatically set the virtual desktop size and/or metamodes if you

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Michel Dnzer wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:49, Roland Scheidegger wrote: And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs version of july? I wonder if it could be related to

RE: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 00:13, Eric Anholt wrote: Seems like we need a set-understood-version ioctl. What I'm imagining is an ioctl that takes in a DRM interface version and/or card-specific DRM interface version. It can then adjust its response to other ioctls appropriately. It would

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Alex Deucher
Would he be interested in contributing his work back? or maybe explaining how/if he got it working? Alex --- Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ville Syrj?l? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:48:38PM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: there's also this driver:

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-16 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 08:36, Alex Deucher wrote: Log message: Clean up of the mode validation code for MergedFB. Does it behave the same as pre-MergedFB by default now? I haven't put back the old clone code, although the code that's there

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:41, Alex Deucher wrote: --- Michel Dnzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 08:36, Alex Deucher wrote: Log message: Clean up of the mode validation code for MergedFB. Does it behave the same as pre-MergedFB by default now? I haven't put

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Martin Spott
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:30:53AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: Would he be interested in contributing his work back? or maybe explaining how/if he got it working? I'll ask him - he moved to southern Germany earlier this year, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Martin Spott
Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would he be interested in contributing his work back? or maybe explaining how/if he got it working? Sorry, currently he's forced to finish his dissertation. He says you might have to wait at least a month until he'll be able to deal with that, Martin. --

[Dri-devel] Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-16 Thread Felix Kühling
IIRC, the radeon driver still uses AGP writeback. This doesn't work reliably on my system and I disabled it in my local tree. Some people (including myself) have been thinking about an efficient algorithm to detect unreliable writeback, but AFAICT nobody came up with anything yet (at least no

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-16 Thread Keith Whitwell
Felix Kühling wrote: IIRC, the radeon driver still uses AGP writeback. This doesn't work reliably on my system and I disabled it in my local tree. Some people (including myself) have been thinking about an efficient algorithm to detect unreliable writeback, but AFAICT nobody came up with anything

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Jon Smirl
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:08, Jon Smirl wrote: [...] a linux-2.4 port. The patches are almost identical. For DRI CVS we need a single patch which works everywhere, see drm_os_linux.h for examples how this is handled for other stuff. The code

Re: [Dri-devel] mga anisotropic filtering

2003-10-16 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:29:36AM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: Now I need to change the ddx driver to tell the 3D driver if the chipset is a G550. But this causes some compatibility problems. The 3D driver doesn't have a version number so the ddx doesn't know if the 3D driver can handle

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Eric Anholt
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 18:08, Jon Smirl wrote: Same patch again with Matrox PCI IDs fixed and a linux-2.4 port. The patches are almost identical. Both against current bitkeeper source. Can people in the know please check the PCI IDs for the other hardware? I'm fairly sure Radeon, Rage128, and

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Alex Deucher
no worries... I was just curious. --- Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would he be interested in contributing his work back? or maybe explaining how/if he got it working? Sorry, currently he's forced to finish his dissertation. He says you might

Re: [Dri-devel] Multiple VTs with DRI

2003-10-16 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:22:33PM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote: --- Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I recall, no. As it is now, only a single instance of Xfree86 can use the DRI. I think it might be possible by adapting the resume code to reinitialize state and agp on a VT switch,

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Eric Anholt
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:41, Jon Smirl wrote: --- Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still working on cleaning the PCI ID stuff up to be portable, which I'll commit as soon as I test (I'm trying to get a multihead setup going to see if there are problems with that as Michel Daenzer

Re: [Dri-devel] weird corruption with r200

2003-10-16 Thread Alex Deucher
Before I go grepping through the tree, where would I find this code (in the DRM, DRI, or 2D)? Also is it for r100 or r200 or both? is there a r200_cp_dispatch_clear()? thanks, Alex --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 06:44, Alex Deucher wrote: I've uploaded

[Dri-devel] cool merge/diff app

2003-10-16 Thread Alex Deucher
I just noticed this app today: http://meld.sourceforge.net/index.html Looks pretty nice. Alex __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com --- This

[Dri-devel] R300 specs and drivers.

2003-10-16 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
I'm curious if Tungsten Graphics has made any attempts to get basic 3D specs from ATI for the R300 line of cards? While is certainly great that ATI is showing a commitment to writing their own 3D drivers for linux, there are still other operating systems (and users who insist on open source

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:17, Roland Scheidegger wrote: btw why exactly isn't it possible to hot-swap (when xfree86 is running) the dri driver (r200_dri.so)? This kinda works, but kwm, kicker kwhatever insists on crashing shortly afterwards :-( Weird, when you do what exactly? I've never

Re: [Dri-devel] R300 specs and drivers.

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:42:15PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: I'm curious if Tungsten Graphics has made any attempts to get basic 3D specs from ATI for the R300 line of cards? While is certainly great that ATI is showing a commitment to writing their own 3D drivers for linux, there are

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Keith Whitwell wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have something to do with it. If you make sure that the old driver.so file is removed, not overwritten, there shouldn't be any problem, as existing open filehandles won't then see any

Re: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:08, Jon Smirl wrote: [...] a linux-2.4 port. The patches are almost identical. For DRI CVS we need a single patch which works everywhere, see drm_os_linux.h for examples how this is handled for other stuff. What about the other points I raised? Anyway, it seems Eric

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI proprietary modules

2003-10-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 19:12, Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:46:44PM -0400, John Dennis wrote: Does anybody know for the proprietary drivers (supplied by ATI and Nvidia) which pieces they replace and which pieces they expect to be there? The reason I'm asking is to

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI proprietary modules

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:46:44PM -0400, John Dennis wrote: Does anybody know for the proprietary drivers (supplied by ATI and Nvidia) which pieces they replace and which pieces they expect to be there? The reason I'm asking is to understand the consequences of changing an API. I'm

[Dri-devel] DRI proprietary modules

2003-10-16 Thread John Dennis
For DRI to work correctly there are several independent pieces that all have to be in sync. * XFree86 server which loads drm modules (via xfree86 driver module) * The drm kernel module * The agpgart kernel module Does anybody know for the proprietary drivers (supplied by ATI and Nvidia) which