2010/5/3 Uwe Bugla <[email protected]>: > Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Michel Dänzer: >> On Sam, 2010-05-01 at 09:33 +0200, Uwe Bugla wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am working with an ATI Radeon 7200 QD (R100) on a Pentium 4 machine >> > with Intel AGP chipset. >> > The card driver is 6.13 (latest snapshot from April 30). >> > >> > To savely exclude other side effects I did the following: >> > Recompile mesa library 7.9 devel and libdrm 2.4.20 from snapshot of >> > April 30. >> > >> > What is the symptom? >> > Via config manager of Gnome 2.30 I make metacity a composite manager for >> > a reduced >> > amount of 3D effects. >> > What happens with the ATI driver (NOT with the self-built nouveau driver >> > running >> > with my Nvidia cards - this one works fantastic!) is the following: >> > >> > If I go to the Linux Kernel archives via iceweasel 3.59 and push the >> > right mouse >> > button over some "View Patch" entry I get a window throwing shadows, as >> > intended. >> > >> > BUT: The window does not contain any text! >> > I wonder if the 6.13 driver can deal with the fact that the card only >> > has 32 MB RAM. >> > But this is wild guessing, as I do not have any idea. >> > Maybe this hint / symptom is helpful for the developers. >> > >> > When publishing driver 6.13 you were promising a driver being able of 3D >> > and 2D >> > effects plus KMS. >> > Except the 3D effects everything is working fine. >> > When will you finally fulfil that promise? >> >> Did you test the kernel patch I asked you to? > > > Hello everybody, > > SIGH! I got Compiz running together with my ATI Radeon QD 7200 (=R100). > > Just to make it clear for every one: > > Needed are: > > 1. Kernel 2.6.34-rc6 > 2. a self built Debian package containing the latest snapshot from > driver xf86-video-ati, version 6.13. > 3. one AGP patch > 4. one Radeon patch > 5. most important (and this one cost me hours to find out!): > > NOT the latest master from here: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/ > This master contains hunks which make the whole thing incompatible! >
What hunks are causing problems? What sort of problems are you seeing? > > > Instead you can use this one: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/snapshot/mesa-nvfx-next-6b.tar.gz > > This is Luca Barbieri's experimental tree, which not only works > excellent with my Nvidia nv34 cards, but furthermore seems to be the > only one to work with my ATI driver...... > > > > Michel Dänzer does not like the Radeon patch, and Dave Airlie promised > to write a better one. > Unfortunately I haven't seen any patch from Dave yet, so the empty > promise stays to at least try to find a better solution...... There were several new variations of the patch from both Dave and Michel and you were cc'ed on most of them: http://marc.info/?l=dri-devel&m=127233579110506&w=2 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-April/000266.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-April/000309.html Alex _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
