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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:32:17
Message-Id: icenfj$l70$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 11/22/2010 10:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote:
3 >> [...]
4 >> Thanks, I would try that, but...
5 >>
6 >> # emerge -av media-libs/mesa
7 >>
8 >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
9 >>
10 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
11 >> [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.4.0 [1.3.6] USE="-doc -ipv6 -static-libs -
12 >> test (-xcb%*)" 2,036 kB
13 >> [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 USE="nptl pic xcb -debug (-gallium) -
14 >> motif (-selinux)" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau
15 >> -r128 -
16 >> savage -sis -svga -tdfx -via" 0 kB
17 >>
18 >> I set "gallium" in /etc/make.conf but (-gallium) means the flag is
19 >> turned off
20 >> in a profile somewhere?
21 >
22 > Oh, you're not on ~arch. I assumed to much. I don't know how that works
23 > on old versions of the drivers and Mesa, or whether Gallium3D was any
24 > good with old versions of Mesa. I can only confirm that it works on
25 > recent versions.
26
27 Oops, please disregard. You're on ~arch too it seems. I'm using Mesa
28 7.9 from the x11 overlay.
29
30 I think the Gallium3D driver (r300g) should work just fine (and actually
31 better than Mesa Classic, r300c) even on Mesa 7.8.2, at least for R300
32 GPUs (Radeon 9xxx). I've no idea why it's masked; r300g is what
33 upstream recommends and r300c isn't really worked on and is practically
34 deprecated.