Matthijs Melchior writes:
L.S.,
I have installed the radeonhd driver, version 1.2, as provided by the Debian package xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.2.0-1_i386.deb It identifies itself as: (II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.0, built from dist of git branch master, commit 9d131f90 (--) Chipset RV630 found
Most things work very well.
However, when showing the "Superquadrics" screensaver from the xscreensaver-gl_5.05-1_i386.deb package using the Gnome 2.22.1 dialoge from System>Preferences>Screensaver in full screen preview mode, then there are sometimes incorrect triangles around some sharp edges of the rotating objects. Since the displayed objects are random, I cannot give an exact scenario to produce this. Whenever I start it in full screen mode, I see it the triangles within a minute.
To check for a regression, I have temporarily reinstalled version 1.1 of the driver, and there the effect is also present but smaller and less frequent.
I hope this helps to make radeonhd a perfect driver.
Is this a 3D screensaver (as the name suggests)? It will still take a while until 3D support is available for your hardware, therefore 3D screensavers would be rendered entirely by Mesa - entirely outside of this driver. You should get the same effects on other hardware without 3D support (NVIDIA cards using the nv driver for example). If this isn't related to 3D rendering you may want to use a different acceleration method. Please consult the man page on how to do this. Cheers, Egbert. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org