Hello, Please see the attached news item for review. The news item should be published before mesa-7.11 goes stable. Corresponding bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377349
Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Title: Mesa r600 driver now defaults to gallium Author: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2011-08-28 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <media-libs/mesa-7.12 This news item is relevant to you only if you have a Radeon graphics chipset and use the free/open source driver. The r600 driver that provides 3D acceleration for Radeon HD 2000 and later cards comes in the "classic" and "gallium" variants. The gallium driver is based on the new Gallium3D infrastructure and was chosen as the default driver for media-libs/mesa-7.11. Existing users will not be switched automatically. To switch to the r600 gallium driver, use the following command: eselect mesa set r600 gallium Gallium3D requires kernel modesetting (KMS). If your system is not yet configured for KMS, consult the X Server Configuration HOWTO for instructions prior to switching: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
