[gentoo-desktop] Re: xf86-video-ati-6.8.0 ?

[Duncan]

Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> posted
20080304225819.GK2088@××××××××××××××××××××××××××.edu, excerpted below, on 
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:58:19 -0800:

> Yes, please read the ChangeLog.

Ahh... I had read the upstream changelog, but not Gentoo's.  EXA not 
working on r200 could indeed be a problem here too, as that's what I'm 
currently using.

Do you need any additional data or perhaps xorg logs (maybe with some 
sort of additional debugging enabled)?  Upstream and Gentoo bug numbers?  
Does this seem to be on all r200s or just some of them?  Etc.  Surely 
they had tested on r200 and it worked on what they had tested?  (... 
which would imply it's only some of them?)

As you say, quite awhile (relatively, given xorg was supposed to be more 
active) since the last full release, so I'd love to see it work. =8^S  
OTOH, r300 and r400 folks should be happy, with render accel finally. =8^)

Finally, professional opinion needed, is it worth upgrading past r200 
now?  I'm currently running a Radeon 9200SE-AGP, with IIRC a 9250 PCI as 
a second (but not active) card.  Both have dual out, DVI-I and VGA.  I'm 
running a VGA adaptor on the active card's DVI, and dual VGA CRTs in 
1600x1200, but would love to upgrade to something with dual dual-link DVI-
D, and run, eventually, dual Apple Cinema 30" equivalents.  Or is it 
possible to run them on single link each at a lower refresh (17 Hz or 
whatever), and is that actually usable (it wouldn't be on CRT, but might 
be on LCD)?  Anyway, as best I can tell, I need an r300 generation 
minimum, as it's simply not possible to do dual dual-link DVI out on the 
r200 generation.  And yes, I know I'll be spending $3500-4000 US all told 
(last I checked, I could get the LCDs for ~1750 each, so $3500 for them 
plus video card), that's what the "eventually" is about.  The only other 
caveat is the system (dual dual-core Opteron 290s, 8 gigs RAM, so I'm not 
ready to upgrade the base system any time soon) doesn't have PCI-E yet, 
tho it does have PCI-X but I don't know any video cards for that so AGP 
and if a second card is necessary, PCI.

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