Talk:Radeon
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I've added a short howto on installing ATI Radeons up to 9200, from what I had in memory. Now I need someone to verify that it works
/kallenberg
I've renamed the page to something far more appropriate and descriptive.
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[edit] Small detail missing?
I spent a full day trying to get DRI working with the open-source Radeon drivers, reading through dozens and dozens of articles and editing my xorg.conf more than a hundred times to try getting DRI to activate. glxinfo would always report "direct Rendering: No".
What did the trick for me on an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (RV420, if i remember correctly) was unmerging the ati-drivers package - how obvious! I was hoping to be able to switch between the fglrx and radeon drivers in xorg.conf, but at least this got DRI working fine. BTW, no Portage overlay or any kind of deep digging was needed - just xorg.conf edits and unmerging the proprietary ATI drivers.
So maybe it would be helpful to add something in the article (troubleshooting? introduction?) stating that unmerging ati-drivers can help solve the DRI issues?
(I might edit the page later to simplify some of the xorg.conf options, but now I just need some sleep)
sollec 00:59, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Oops
DRI not DRM! Lol, typo. No, digital rights management has not yet found its way into the kernel, so relax guys :D
Don't confuse Digital Rights Managment with Direct Rendering Manager. We are talking about patotoes, not bananas. Johan.
I don't get it. I own an old Ati 3D Pro AGP (mach64 based) and as of today I don't have DRM support in kernels 2.6.x. There exists however /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/mach64_dri.so as part of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 which is the X11 server release I'm currently using. So it looks like no compilation of the DRI modules is required. However I cannot load it as a module.
Could anyone say me if is it really working DRI on 9100igp? Some time ago it doesn't...
[edit] Radeon 9250
Would someone verify the status for Radeon 9250?
This works with the r200 driver. Infirit
[edit] r300 driver
I think that we need a howto for use r300 driver.
[edit] changed xorg.conf
I changed some config, since i wasted an hour figuring out why it didn't work! :)
Load DRI
Load GLX
To
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
[edit] primozic's overlay
The directions after "you can use layman with primozic's overlay" don't work. The website doesn't appear to have automatic tarring of directories turned on, so going to the URL given in my-list.wml is a 404. The website is up, however.
DrChandra
- Works now: --Henry78 03:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
