Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (288 mails)

[Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/7/24 Victor Vlasenko <vlasenko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Alex!
>
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> > 2009/7/24 Victor Vlasenko <vlasenko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Hi Matthias, Dariem!
> > >
> > > I have tried to build various radeonhd version and launch xorg 1.6 with
> > > DRI
> > > "on". Here is the results:
> > > 1.2.0 - not builds
> > > 1.2.1 - not builds
> > > 1.2.2 - builds, black screen
> > > 1.2.3 - builds, black screen
> > > 1.2.4 - builds, black screen
> > > latest git - builds, black screen
> > >
> > > I remember that in Ubuntu 8.04 the radeonhd worked fine with xorg 1.5 and
> > > DRI "on", also it worked fine with OpenGL applications.
> > >
> > > The xf86-video-radeon works with xorg 1.5/1.6 and DRI "on", but in some
> > > OpenGL application the screen gots messed up due to object track showing
> > > (well I don't know how to explain this in english). Radeonhd didn't have
> > > such problem, that's why I'm interested in using radeonhd driver...
> >
> > 3D is handled by a separate 3d driver in mesa, so this is likely a
> > mesa bug rather than ddx bug.  You might try a newer 3d driver.  There
> > have been significant improvements there since the last mesa release.
>
> Yup, but I wrote that I'm building latest versions of all drivers using
> instructions at http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon with building also latest git
> radeonhd driver. The other thing is that xf86-video-radeon driver actually
> works with DRI "on". So if this is a mesa bug than both drivers should have
> failed...

The rendering errors ("screen gots messed up due to object track
showing") are related to the 3d driver.  Whether or not you can enable
the dri is a ddx issue.

Alex
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