El Martes, 11 de Agosto de 2009, Sören Wellhöfer escribió: > Dear openchrome community, > > I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on a notebook that is equipped with a VIA Chrome 9 > chip. The question I have is regarding the issue of direct rendering and > drm which currently does not seem to be supported by the openchrome driver. Well, I've tryed to get working hardware acceleration on this card (VX 820 Unichrome 9), and I do! (more or less not know if mesa do the rest).
http://www.compunauta.net/blog/article.php?id=203&catid=44 I think there is some kind of hardware acceleration cause glxgears prompts and show an average 100fps (look at the screenshot), but kde 4 require more advanced shadow opengl functions that lacks on mesa I guess. I'm following this (kde is not too much verbose as I want about why is not applying the 3d effects). May be you can retry your config, at least to try run compiz. > Although there exists a proprietary kernel module adding dri supporting for > Ubuntu 8.10, VIA has not release anything similar for Ubuntu 9.04 as of > yet. > > So the question I have is, will there be support for dri in openchrome at > some point? > > I think it was in december of last that I was enlightened to read a news > article talking about VIA's willingness to cooperate with the openchrome > project in matters regarding 3D acceleration. > > To the contrary, I have recently heard of rumours saying that VIA will not > at all back up the the efforts brought forth by the openchrome project. > > So what's the status on this, does anybody know anything more precis? > It would be really nice to have it working as I'm really not keen on using > anything proprietary anyways ... > > Thank you all! > > Sören -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez www.compunauta.com Anuncios Gratis: http://anuncios.compunauta.net/ _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
