Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xfree-4.2.99.4 + xfree-drm-4.2.99.4 == working DRI

[Will Roe]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:10:16PM +0000 or thereabouts, Mark Guertin wrote:
> Hello everyone, as the subject says, get the latest ~ppc xfree and xfree-drm,
> and if you have a r128 or radeon based setup, you _should_ end up with
> working DRI in xfree.
>
> Currently watching around 1250fps in glxgears, 80fps fullscreen 1280x1024 in
> armagetron on my radeon 7500 on G4 733 + Apple DFP.
>
> points of note:
>
> make sure your /usr/src/linux symlink is pointed to your _active_ kernel when
> you compile. Also if you update kernel you will have to re-emerge xfree-drm
> (it provides the kernel modules).

Well I did all that. Seems to work nicely - good (not very good) performance on 
DVDs (worse than OS X, when others have reported that Linux should be faster).
At least this kernel drm driver didn't shut my machine (iBook 800) down appon
starting X. (Yes, the driver from Gatos fscked my machine somewhat - shut it
down, then reset my hardware clock to 1904, I kid you not.

Anyway - I still have the same problems with this, and all non-fbdev drivers.
I get a slightly irritating faint mouse cursor. It is barely visible on white
webpages, and have a blurred, shadowy look. I haven't a clue what the problem
is but maybe someone does. The screen scrambles somewhat on starting X as well.
This isn't a problem, but is worrying. It does right itself within a few seconds.

For the record: iBook 800MHZ, Radeon Mobility 7500 32Mb
X at: 1024x768x16

Thanks,
Will

>
> Also, if you are a KDE user and you are updating from older versions of
> fontconfig/freetype/xft for the xfree upgrades, you may also have to re
> emerge kdelibs and qt to build against this newer stuff. You will notice
> right away if you need too (fonts will be badly borked).
>
> If you used Xeasyconf, you will also want to update that one and re-run as
> well.  Older versions had a bug where it didn't always set a valid XKB layout
> and the pre XKB modes are broken in that snapshot (will be fixed by vendor
> for release).
>
> As always, please report any bugs to bugs.gentoo.org, and always include the
> output of "emerge info" (no quotes).  Thanks to all and happy Gentoo'ing
>
> Gerk
>
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