On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 21:50 +0200, Uwe Bugla wrote: > Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 12:49 -0400 schrieb Alex Deucher: > > 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 > > Hi all, > > 1. I was not consequently cc'ed.
Yes, you were. > 2. I am not familiar with acronyms like bo or VRM > 3. I owe no subscription at the dri devel list. > 4. None of the 3 patches applies against 2.6.34-rc6 without further > overworking, and this work does not only cover line adjustment.... > 5. If I must adjust the line numbers of the patches to avoid fuzz > factors and line overhead that is OK so far. > 6. But if the patch does not compile after these adjustments that is > anything but healthy for the mood.... > 7. The Email header was changed, so I did not find Michel's approaches > in order to test them. > > Now let's have a closer look to the patches: > > Michel's contributions unfortunately neither apply as patch, nor do they > compile against kernel 2.6.34-rc6..... > Result: Unusable. > > Dave's contribution contains a hunk 6 against radeon_object.c which is > pure crap, as radeon_object.c is simply not long enough: 509 lines! > > This is the piece of crap (i. e. hunk 6) which should not be there: [...] The only 'crap' I've seen has been your uttering. If you're trying to make our killfiles, you're doing pretty good. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
