Re: [gentoo-user] About ATI drivers in X.org 7

[Luis Felipe Strano Moraes]

There's a question on the forums about this, and they 
explain there how toi install it. It only needs to 
unmask xorg-x11 6.8.99 and install one package from the
new modular ones. Search there for more help.

I'm going to buy myself a Radeon 9600 this weekend
mainly because of the free software drivers.

hth,
--lf

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:58:32PM +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Well, my opinion was (and is) to wait. You aren't losing anything and
> you're winning stability. Sorry, I meant X.org 7 instead of X.org.
> Obviously, I knew that X.org is in portage !! ;)
>
> Bye and thanks !!
>
> 2005/10/7, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>:
> > Rafael Fernández López schreef:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've read something somewhere that have amazed me... Is X.org
> > > developing new ATI drivers, better far from ATI.com ?
> >
> > Yes and no... I think what you're talking about is most likely the open
> > source r300 drivers (similar in effect to the open source 'radeon'
> > kernel drivers that are available for the 9500 and below).
> >
> > More information can be found on these drivers here:
> >
> > http://r300.sourceforge.net/R300.php
> >
> > As far as I know, although the r300 project's code is available to X.org
> > (and in fact has been accepted into the CVS tree), the project itself is not
> > associated with, or rather is separate from, the X.org project itself.
> >
> > >
> > > If that's affirmative... We will be able to use Damage extension (and
> > >  Composite extension) with ati rendering ?
> >
> > No idea, since I don't know what the Damage extension is/does, and afaik
> > the Composite extension is not yet complete or stable, so it doesn't
> > 'matter' whether it works atm-- ATI themselves don't want to 'waste'
> > resources on supporting Composite until it's done, so I can't imagine
> > that the Open Source project is going to focus on it yet either (having
> > less resources and information than ATI themselves).
> >
> > >
> > > And when is X.org going to be able on portage ?
> >
> > As noted on the r300 site, 'The latest source code is available directly
> > from Xorg, Mesa and DRM CVS trees.'
> >
> > I would assume that 'the Xorg, Mesa and DRM CVS trees' are the
> > development trees for modular X.org (X.org 7, is that?).
> >
> > Ebuilds for these are available in Portage, they're just hard-masked.
> > Myself, I'm not prepared to touch them with a 20-foot/metre pole, but
> > perhaps you are.
> >
> > If not, then it would be better to wait until upstream stabilizes a
> > release, and the ebuilds stabilize to at least ~arch. Perhaps the Xorg
> > site has a target date for the next release; I haven't looked. I would
> > at least imagine that their development mailing list would give a better
> > idea as to how close to release they might be.
> >
> > I'm happy to wait, but that's just my opinion, and it's your choice what
> > you decide to do.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Holly
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> >
> >
>
>
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> Saludos,
> Rafael Fernández López.
>
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