agpgart and direct rendering and such in xorg-x11
Pau Aliagas
linuxnow at newtral.org
Mon Mar 22 22:31:04 UTC 2004
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, RaXeT wrote:
>
> >When will direct rendering be supported in xorg-x11? Or is it solely the
> >responsibility of ATI or nVidia to promote their own drivers?
>
> Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) is supported in xorg-x11
> right now. Xorg X11 includes the XFree86 4.4.0RC2 sources up to
> the XFree86 license change, and also includes changes that have
> occured in the XFree86 source tree since the license change that
> are not affected by the license (ie: code under a non-XFree86
> license).
>
> If a card is supported by DRI in XFree86, then it is supported by
> DRI in Xorg X11 also.
I have successfully run the xorg packages in a x86_64 laptop with an ATI
Radeon Mobility 9600 M10.
I had to install XFree86-4.4.0 but now it is not necessary anymore. Good
work!
Pau
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