From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
Cc: chris@pcburn.com, Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ati X300 support?
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 19:28:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601011928.37152.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135798330.16657.1.camel@localhost>
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 19:32, Kasper Sandberg wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > Yes, you and this link are both out of date. The r300 driver provides
> > basic support for many newer video cards based on the r300 core and is
> > shipped with Xorg 7.0.0.
>
> is this only 7.0.0? i just built 6.9 and i dont have the 'r300' x
> driver, or... is it merged into the 'ati' or 'radeon' xorg driver
> module?
>
Sorry for the delay Kasper, the driver is still "ati"; if you have DRI
compiled and enabled, the "ati" driver will attempt to set up DRI via the
r300_dri.so that should exist in either /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/dri,
or /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/dri.
You'll need a fairly recently kernel with drm support for r300/r400, but it
seems to work OOTB.
If you do NOT have the dri drivers, it is trivial to install them. Download
MesaLib-6.4.1, then issue:
make linux-dri
When this finishes, point the installer to the right directory. I initially
made the mistake of pointing it directly to /usr/X11R7/lib, but it copies the
XXX_dri.so's to this directory, so it should actually
be /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/dri (create this directory prior to installation)..
..and that should be it.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-01 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-26 23:59 Gerhard Mack
2005-12-27 1:49 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-27 13:17 ` Gerhard Mack
2005-12-27 15:45 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-27 15:57 ` Gerhard Mack
2005-12-27 16:03 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-27 22:27 ` Chris Bergeron
2005-12-27 23:20 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-28 8:28 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-12-28 17:46 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-28 20:01 ` Chris Bergeron
2005-12-28 19:32 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-01-01 19:28 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2005-12-28 0:20 ` Martin Drab
2005-12-28 0:31 ` Gerhard Mack
2005-12-28 1:40 ` Martin Drab
2005-12-28 2:22 ` Gerhard Mack
2005-12-31 0:24 ` Brice Goglin
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