Re: [radeonhd] firegl V5200: radeonhd or radeon driver?
Hi Marc, Marc MERLIN writes:
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? Cheers, Egbert. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
Hi folks, 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. A word of warning to Fedora users though - the new overly graphical boot sequence in the recently released F10 brings up the system with frame buffers initialized. Radeonhd's acceleration works best with EXA turned on, which can't start if the framebuffer is already active, resulting in awful performance. The workaround is to turn off the switch to fb by adding the kernel parameter "nomodeset" to the boot options. I'm not sure how radeonhd can protect itself against the card being initialized into the wrong mode. Alec -- Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept. habig@neutrino.d.umn.edu http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
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 -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
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Alec T. Habig
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Egbert Eich
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Marc MERLIN