how to know the packets you have submitted have been consumed by the GPU

I am using Radeon 9000 series graphics card. I have this problem. I use indirect buffering for submiiting packets to the GPU. Once I tell hardware that I have placed the packet at some location, I need to wait till it has finished processing it. How do I know that the GPU has consumed all the pack

3D registers do not work!

I am using Radeon 9600 PRO card and am trying to initialize 3D engine. But, writes to some registers like RB3D_CNTL, VAP_CNTL etc are not taking any effect. Hence I am not able to program it. Any idea why this is happening?. Pls suggest what could be the problem..I am new to this! Appreciate your

New to DRI and how to set up a debugging environment..

Hi all, I am new to linux. I am intesrested in developing drivers for graphics cards. I want to setup a debugging environment for DRM/DRI. I have a RADEON 9600 PRO card. And, I have the card on a m/c which has linux kernel 2.6.7( compiled with KGDB enabled). I also have X11( 6.8.2) installed on th