Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (148 mails)

[Marc MERLIN <marc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:04:41PM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote:
>  > Ok, so even if radeonhd did recognize my chip, the radeon folks said I
>  > should forget radeonhd and go with radeon.
>
> Just out of curiosity: what reason was stated for that?

None, really, I'm guessing each side says their driver supports the chip, so
you might as well use their driver :)

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:15:17AM -0600, Alec T. Habig wrote:
> I've also got a FireGL 5200 (in a Thinkpad T60p).  It's been a lot of
> fun to work with the developers and watch support radeonhd grow over the
> past year.  At one point radeon had better support (redhat and ATI
> worked together to quickly patch support into the older driver), but
> that work has been integrated into the radeonhd driver since, which is
> designed from the ground up for these newer chips.
 
Thanks, sounds good enough to me.

I'll just go with that then and report back if I still get hangs on 3d after
compiling a recent checkout.

Marc
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