--- On Mon, 8/24/09, Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com> wrote:
> From: Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com> > Subject: RE: [xwin-discuss] ATI Drivers > To: maybird1776 at yahoo.com, "XwinDiscuss" <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org> > Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 12:39 PM > > Thank you for replying. Unfortunately beside tests you > proposed > I cannot find anywhere on the Net list of ATI GPUs fully > (3D) supported. > > Testing approach could only work for my card or cards > available in my > neighborhood. Even if I have all cards in my home it'd mean > that I > have to change them each time for testing, and it means > changing drivers > etc. Really hard/expensive/not reliable work, isn't it. > > I contacted engineers from Xorg community and all I could > say is that > beside guys from SUN only *Dave Airlied* from Australia > (working for > Red Hat) helped me by explaining me some stuffs via IRC. I > want to > stress this because I really want that community knows it. > > Other engineers did not want to explain some thing to the > newbie > like me (personally, I think now I'm not such newbie > anymore). > When you add to this poor documented code, it is normal > that Xorg > goes forward very slow. It's learning curve is just very > tough. > > I was one of the best at my Faculty, and believe me this is > one of > the hardest thing I ever started to learn. I think that my > PhD would > be easier than this. > > Uros Nedic > Belgrade, Serbia > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:08:33 -0700 > > From: maybird1776 at yahoo.com > > To: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > > Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] ATI Drivers > > > > The list of supported ATI cards is posted on the Xorg > site and I know that > > all currently marketed desktop/netbook cards and GPUs > from ATI are supported for 2D functionality. > > > > This is in the man notes of Xorg but I'll add the old > notes: > > http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/radeon.4.html > > > > More current: > > http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon > > http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd > > > > You can do this for testing: > > Run a 1080p test video stream through Mplayer or VLC > at a 1920x1080x60 resolution using EXA acceleration and Xv > enabled. No artifacts or dropped frames > > should be visible. Use an ATI GPU>= R500 series. > > > > Pull the latest ati/radeon drivers from Xorg git and > contact the Xorg/ATI developers for any assistance besides > Sun's kernel ATI/Intel DRM driver team > > mentioned in the other thread (or whomever is > currently doing the work). > > > > ~ Ken The legacy ATI Radeon cards that works with 3d support were the old AGP/PCI cards like the Radeon 92xx cards which are under the ATI R200/RV200 GPU series (all Radeon 8xxx and Radeon 9xxx cards included). I still have a Radeon 9250 SE APG card to test. Mine's came from Sapphire Technologies which is still around at the http://www.sapphiretech.com website. The last one I know they had left was the SAPPHIRE X1950 GT. You can find the old Radeon 92xx AGP/PCI cards on the web otherwise. The other cards are the ATI Radeon R300-series GPUs which are mainly the ATI Radeon 95xx through 98xx cards. These were popular due to the ATI Radeon 9700 series so you can ask around for them as well. Then, we have the Radeon R400-series which lead up to the Radeon X800/x850 cards. These were the last cards known to work with OSOL with 3D capability in the drivers (if all DRM features are enabled and libs properly implemented). You gotta have a love for this kinda thing... ~ Ken
