[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]

Re: rawhide report: 20040128 changes



Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:


Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat

One thing I'm willing to test is 3D support for Radeon IGM cards (like the one on my laptop). Since you're an XFree maintainer at RH, could you help me test it without seriously breaking FC?


Radeon IGP 3D support is not present in XFree86, including the upcoming 4.4.0 release. It is present only in DRI-CVS as experimental support which is in a developmental state.

I do not have Radeon IGP hardware and do not generally use DRI-CVS except to cvs rdiff out bug fixes occasionally, and to occasionally check in bug fixes.

The DRI project website has a lot of both developer and end user documentation on using DRI-CVS as well as binary driver snapshots. I can't help you directly to get it working, but if you follow the documentation and/or ask for help on the DRI mailing lists, someone might be able to help you to get it to work.

Also, since I often get asked - I have no plans of including this
into our XFree86 until it is considered stable and mainstream. With the current flux going on over at XFree86.org right now, it isn't even clear wether XFree86 will exist in a few months or not, so it could be a while before this is supported.




May I also point out that this kind of non-canon package is exactly what we intended to exist in "Fedora Alternatives". I am thinking now that Alternatives will contain sub-projects like this, specifically packaged for Fedora Core by volunteers who actually use it, and either experimental in nature or conflicting in nature. Alternatives would be available in many non-canon apt/yum/up2date channels that you can add to your configurations and aside from being distributed from download.fedora.redhat.com you must rely entirely on the community developers for support.


Warren




[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]