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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:30:32AM +0000, Mick wrote |
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> Unless you are using a new radeon card you may need |
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> sys-kernel/linux-firmware instead of radeon-ucode. |
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As I mentioned in my reply to Michael Mol, building mesa with the |
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"llvm" USE flag does the trick. |
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It appears the web pages http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml |
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and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml may be out of date. The |
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video card shows up under lspci as... |
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"ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]". |
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According to the Gentoo web pages, it doesn't need a firmware blob at |
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all. However, when booting, the PC said something about loading an R200 |
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blob. It sat there for a minute, timed out, and went on to a standard |
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VGA display. I emerged radeon-ucode and it came up with 62 files, |
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including R200_cp.bin. I stuck that file into the |
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"[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary" |
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option in the kernel, rebuilt, and it appears to work. Since this is an |
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actual gentoo.org webpage, and not a wiki, I'll file a "documentation |
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bug" at bugs.gentoo.org. |
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The "torture test" will come this evening. I'm a paying subscriber to |
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NHL Gamecenter Live. What prompted me to do all this work in the first |
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place was the fact that the onboard Intel GPU couldn't quite keep up to |
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a live hockey game in fullscreen mode. There was occasional stuttering |
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of the video. I went to all this trouble in hopes of a better viewing |
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experience. BTW, I have 2 Dell Dimension 530's. On the one with only |
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the onboard GPU, glxgears shows just over 60 fps. On the one with the |
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ATI card it's jumped to over 262 fps. |
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Last minute note. DRM is *NOT* in effect. I'll be starting a |
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separate thread on that. It's "an excellent adventure" in its own right. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |