suuport for ATI R500 (ex Re: rawhide report: 20070808 changes)

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Wed Aug 8 21:47:07 UTC 2007


On 08/08/2007 11:40 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 22:31 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>   
>> Build System írta:
>>     
>>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.193-2.fc8
>>> ------------------------------
>>> * Wed Aug 08 2007 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 6.6.193-2
>>> - xf86-video-ati 6.6.193. - remove dotclock workaround for now
>>>   It causes crashes bug 251051
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hurray! Finally 3D support for ATI Xpress 200M arrived.
>> At least it's advertised with the new driver in glxinfo.
>> This driver absolutely requires Mesa 7.0[.1].
>> With current Mesa 6.5.2 X will lock up as soon as
>> I start any 3D app, say glxgears. I tested it on F7.
>>
>>     
>
> I'll look at getting the new Mesa into the tree soon so we can actually
> support 3D on this chipset..

A friend of mine asked me to package the experimental free driver for 
ATI R500 (which I did, see 
http://wolfy.fedorapeople.org/xf86-video-avivo/; incidentally, the 
package works for him) Are there any plans to include support for this 
chip in the mainstream package xorg-drv-ati package  ?






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