> For Q1, the status is that it should work, but apparently it locks up > for some unknown reason for some people. There was a significant fix for > potential lockup problems in the radeon ddx driver in xorg modular cvs, > which may or not help you. You should try the snapshots, you can try > patching the drm that comes with them or use your own, there is not much > you can do to build it wrong. Which gets us to Q2, that patch 4745 is > needed for drm/dri (and dma ddx) support of new radeons (it is nothing > more than new ids, all the cleanup was commited), but it's not in cvs > because it sometimes causes lockups (even though the lockups aren't > exactly caused by drm, but xorg ddx if it uses the drm module). (Note > though that the ids of new radeons already present in drm are just as > likely to cause lockups as those which aren't.)
There are more fixes comming into the DDX everyday or so too :) So if it doesn't work, you may want to lurk at the CVS commit list and retry regulary. Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
