Re: ATI/AMD says they will release complete graphics chip documentation

2007-09-14 Thread Jacek Poplawski
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NjA1Mw http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/42589_rv630_rrg_1.01o.pdf http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/RRG-216M56-03oOEM.pdf -- Free Software - find interesting programs and change them NetHack - meet interesting creatures,

old notebook supported by DRI

2007-08-24 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I want to buy an old notebook with video card supported by DRI. I know that Intel 810 is perfectly supported, but I want to buy something cheaper (and older). Most of the pentium3 notebooks use S3 Savage and ATI Rage Mobility chips. According to http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/CategoryHardware S3

Re: old notebook supported by DRI

2007-08-24 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 8/24/07, Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are also Pentium3 notebooks that use i830 chipsets. True, I found: http://www.allegro.pl/item227901738_super_ibm_r31_1_1_256_dvd_rw_30g_14_tv_gwr_f_vat.html http://www.allegro.pl/item225655062__dell_latitude_c400_piii_1_0_384_20_cd.html

offtopic: ati oss news

2007-05-11 Thread Jacek Poplawski
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=288 Probably nobody knows what does it mean, but maybe it's a good news :) -- Free Software - find interesting programs and change them NetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them and eat their bodies Usenet - meet interesting people from all over the

Re: offtopic: ati oss news

2007-05-11 Thread Jacek Poplawski
One more link from Digg, this time it's even more promising: http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/ -- Free Software - find interesting programs and change them NetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them and eat their bodies Usenet

black screen when starting DRI

2007-02-19 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I have strange problem with DRI. My hardware is ATI Radeon 9800PRO NH (AGP), Asus K8V-X SE and Athlon 64 3000+. I use Arch Linux, I update my packages almost every day. Few days ago i tried to update from xorg-server-1.1.1 to 1.2.0, but I realized that X process uses 100% CPU all the time, so I

Re: black screen when starting DRI

2007-02-19 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 2/19/07, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't wrote that in the report, but problem appeared without changing xorg.conf! Can you elaborate? I only upgraded packages. I am almost sure that I haven't changed AGP settings at that time in xorg.conf. I just think that maybe some

Re: No more lockups with Radeon 9800 Pro

2007-01-02 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 1/1/07, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to report that my Radeon now works flawlessly, cheers to the r300 developers !! https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9506 Can you try this? -- Free Software - find interesting programs and change them

Re: seeking a pcie card recommendation

2006-12-29 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Asus X550 works perfectly and is very cheap. -- Free Software - find interesting programs and change them NetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them and eat their bodies Usenet - meet interesting people from all over the world and flame them Decopter - unrealistic helicopter simulator, get

Re: Recent CVS commit broke some apps (GLX)

2006-10-27 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I am unable to create any successfull build of Mesa CVS in last 2 weeks. r300_dri.so compiles, but each OpenGL application except glxgears segfaults on Mesa calls. There are some error messages about textures (sorry I don't have access to this computer right now). -- Free Software - find

Re: Recent CVS commit broke some apps (GLX)

2006-10-27 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 10/27/06, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 12:24 +0200, Jacek Poplawski wrote: I am unable to create any successfull build of Mesa CVS in last 2 weeks. r300_dri.so compiles, but each OpenGL application except glxgears segfaults on Mesa calls. Make sure you're using

r300 official releases

2006-10-13 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Is it possible to release r300 driver more often to the public?Last version of Mesa has been released 15th September, this version does not contain fix for Blender, so everyone with this version of Mesa will notice broken rendering and people will say to such a person: r300 is broken, but nVidia

Re: results of Radeon 9800 Pro test

2006-09-13 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Just tested Asus X550 on Asus A8V-XE motherboard with Sempron 3000.Return To Castle Wolfenstein and NeverBall work perfectly stable and very fast.I had problems with starting Doom3, will work on it later. I was expecting problems with DRI - there are none. Real problems are with sata support for

Re: What can the FSF do to help?

2006-09-12 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 9/11/06, John Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are interested in ideas for how we can help contribute to the project'sdevelopment (and to the overall goals of performing 3D video drivers for freesoftware operating systems).1) Talk to ATI/AMD about releasing at least some documentation for

Re: results of Radeon 9800 Pro test

2006-08-31 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I tried doom3, while it doesn't work correctly with default renderer, it is quite playable with arb renderer. And it has much more than 5fps.-- Free Software - find interesting programs and change themNetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them and eat their bodies Usenet - meet interesting

Re: results of Radeon 9800 Pro test

2006-08-31 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I updated my drivers from CVS on August 29th I use binary package xf86-video-ati 6.6.2-1 from Arch Linux testing repositoryglxinfo shows:OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 1x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCLxorg shows:Chipset ATI Radeon 9800PRO NH (AGP) found 800x600 resolution, I use

Re: results of Radeon 9800 Pro test

2006-08-31 Thread Jacek Poplawski
High quality, 1024x768, advanced options enabled except antialiasing and sync:2148 frames rendered in 243.2 seconds = 8.8 fpsMaybe Radeon 9800 just works better with DRI than other cards? -- Free Software - find interesting programs and change themNetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them

results of Radeon 9800 Pro test

2006-08-28 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Hi,I removed fglrx from my system yesterday.I was using it to initialize my Radeon 9800 Pro before (old DRI driver crashed without that).Then I installed new drivers, and I tested following applications: Blender - at least one problem - selection rendering (BKEY), this happens with many drivers

Re: results of Radeon 9800 Pro test

2006-08-28 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 8/28/06, Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glest - refuses to start (Exception: Your system supports OpenGL version 1.2 (1.3 Mesa 6.5.1) Glest needs at least version 1.3 to work)This implies that glest is getting an indirect rendering context. Yes, sorry, I tried to run it from root :-(It

Re: results of Radeon 9800 Pro test

2006-08-28 Thread Jacek Poplawski
While the r300 driver has, indeed, come a long way, I'm hesitant to callit the best OpenGL implementation I've ever seen.As of July, the r200 driver still out performed the r300 driver at nearly every OpenGLapplication and game on my system.But the problem is that r200 is not stable (at least on

r300 and more than two OpenGL contexts

2006-08-13 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I tried to start 3 glxgears instances on my 9800 Pro.Two are working correctly but third one shows:*WARN_ONCE*File radeon_mm.c function radeon_mm_alloc line 216 Ran out of GART memory!Please consider adjusting GARTSize

PCI-E Radeons?

2006-07-30 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Is any PCI-E Radeon supported by DRI? I can't find much information about it in archives or on r300 related website (should be means nothing).-- Free Software - find interesting programs and change them NetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them and eat their bodiesUsenet - meet interesting

Re: PCI-E Radeons?

2006-07-30 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 7/30/06, Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, all r3xx and r4xx PCIE radeons up through the are supported withthe exception of the XPRESS chips.By XPRESS do you mean computer chipset released by ATI? (I found it in Wikipedia) Does it mean that all PCI-Express x300, x550, x600, x700, x800

Re: g400 vanilla 2.6.17 DRI

2006-07-02 Thread Jacek Poplawski
This has confused me. DRI works as expected on current kernel with xorg7.0, if AGPMode isn't set higher than 2. Can you try to run Blender on mga? When hardware acceleration is enabled I see some rendering errors.-- Free Software - find interesting programs and change themNetHack - meet

Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I am a Mesa/DRI user for few years (Voodoo1, Voodoo3, Radeon 9100, Radeon 9800) and always there were some problems with hardware acceleration of some applications. If I remember correctly there was a problem with wrong texture format or size, usage of some more advanced features and now - just

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Hardware acceleration is always on assuming your system is set upproperly.If an application uses a feature that is not supported by hardware, you have to fall back to software if you want theapplication to run. But in that case many applications won't run correctly, because they are tested with

Re: g400 vanilla 2.6.17 DRI

2006-06-20 Thread Jacek Poplawski
DRI with Matrox G400 was broken since 2.6.12, in result, we stuck at 2.6.11.12.But Matrox works correctly on current kernel with DRI from 7.0 or CVS.-- Free Software - find interesting programs and change themNetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them and eat their bodies Usenet - meet

Re: 9800 lockups, why fixing them seems to be that hard ?

2006-06-18 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I use 9800 Pro and it works stable under two circumstances:- start X with fglrx once (I put it in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local)- avoid some applicationsStuff like Blender, Enemy Territory or NeverBall works great. Stuff like Cube works without acceleration. Stuff like oolite crashes whole system. Oh, and

how to disable vertex programs?

2006-06-02 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I am trying to run http://maniadrive.raydium.org/ on Radeon 9800 with Mesa CVS.3D view in the menu background works, but when I want to play I see:*WARN_ONCE* File r300_vertexprog.c function r300_translate_vertex_shader line 564Ran

Re: _glapi_add_dispatch

2006-05-31 Thread Jacek Poplawski
The same libGL.so is being used in all cases, and I can't find any other on my system.1) line from glxinfo output: OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20040924 AGP 1x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL 2) line from ldd glxinfo: libGL.so.1 = /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb7e6) 3) /usr/lib: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Re: _glapi_add_dispatch

2006-05-31 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On 5/30/06, Pedro Maia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To run quake2 please use, LD_PRELOAD=path/to/libGL.so quake2 In my case it works fine, with that trick , without it didn't work.But why it didn't work? It opens /usr/lib/libGL.so for sure, because without it even software accelerated OpenGL

Re: _glapi_add_dispatch

2006-05-31 Thread Jacek Poplawski
To run quake2 please use, LD_PRELOAD=path/to/libGL.so quake2 It helps on r300, I wonder why it isn't needed on mga. -- Free Software - find interesting programs and change them NetHack - meet interesting creatures, kill them and eat their bodies Usenet - meet interesting people from all over

_glapi_add_dispatch

2006-05-30 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Quake2 works here without hardware acceleration on Radeon 9800, same binary works correctly on Matrox G400, in both cases drivers are from Mesa CVS.This is part of quake2 output with LIBGL_DEBUG enabled:Using libGL.so for OpenGL...Initializing OpenGL display...setting fullscreen mode 3: 640

Re: [r300] problems leaving the game (Quake 3 + Doom 3)

2006-05-29 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I build Quake3 from source and on my r300 Mesa CVS falls into indirect rendering just after video mode initialization (tried both SDL GL and GLX drivers). I thought that stencil is the reason, but disabling it didn't help. There are no r300 warnings visible (there are in Cube, which also disables

Re: problems leaving the game (Quake 3 + Doom 3)

2006-05-29 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I am sorry, I meant quake2, not quake3... :-o On 5/29/06, Roland Scheidegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacek Poplawski wrote: I build Quake3 from source and on my r300 Mesa CVS falls into indirect rendering just after video mode initialization (tried both SDL GL and GLX drivers). I thought

Re: DRI binary snapshots suspended

2006-05-11 Thread Jacek Poplawski
should be possible to upgrade only a few components from source. No moreneed to download and build an entire monolithic X tree. There is also a sane build system in place now (though some argue otherwise ;-) thatmost enthusiasts are familiar with. It may be a good idea to create daily source