Re: Radeon Test Day: Wednesday April 1st (yes, really)

[Rémy Maucherat <remy maucherat gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:19 +0200, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:
>> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Radeon_2009-04-01
>>
>> Shouldn't you restrict this test to older Radeon cards (which should
>> be using the new radeon-rewrite code) ? R600+ cards do not get KMS or
>> any 3D support.
>
> We want testing on all hardware, but I'm updating the page at present to
> note things which are known not to work with R600+. Are you sure KMS
> doesn't work, though? http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature has it marked
> as 'WIP' for r600 and r700, just the same as r100->r500...

R600+ does not have it by default (you have to use radeon.modeset=1),
and if I enable it I get no video out (tested on a RV730 and a RV770
card) so it soes not look like it's included at the moment. It's
likely a WIP bundled with the 3D support, but it's not testable at the
moment.

Rémy