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

David Nielsen david at lovesunix.net
Thu Aug 9 05:20:50 UTC 2007


tor, 09 08 2007 kl. 00:47 +0300, skrev Manuel Wolfshant:
> 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  ?

I think Adam Jackson has avivo driver rpms on his people.redhat.com
account still, maybe combining the effort would mean we could get it
into Fedora as the "will eat your kitties" experimental type deal, kinda
like nouveau is included atm.

- David
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