On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM, John Stoffel
"Alex" == Alex Deucher
writes: Alex> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM, John Stoffel
wrote: >> "Alex" == Alex Deucher
writes: Alex> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, John Stoffel
wrote: >>>> "Dave" == Dave Witbrodt
writes: Also, when I lock my display, and kid seven year old switches users so he can play Super Mario Chronicles, the performance is terrible. Is this because user switching doesn't allow sharing of the Hardware for video acceleration? I seem to remember something about this, but Ican't find it in my old emails currently.
Alex> DRI1 only supports one accelerated instance. KMS/DRI2 supports Alex> multiple accelerated sessions.
So if I go with 2.6.32-rcN I should be all set? Or do I need to upgrade MESA, libdrm, etc as well?
Alex> You need xf86-video-ati and mesa with kms support and Alex> libdrm_radeon. I believe karmic has this already. if not, it's Alex> available via ppa. radeonhd doesn't support kms at the moment.
This is what I've got currently installed:
> dpkg-query -l | grep radeon ii libdrm-radeon1 2.4.14-1ubuntu1 Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel rendering services ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1 X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1 X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display driver (debugging symbols)
So I suspect I need to get ppa setup so I can get newer versions. Also, there's no xf86- on Ubuntu, are you sure you don't mean the xserver-xorg-driver-radeon like I have above? *grin*
The actual driver is called xf86-video-ati, but each distro packages it differently. The ones you have should work. You'll need an updated kernel and mesa for r6xx/r7xx 3D however. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org