On Thursday 16 October 2008, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: >2008/10/16 Steve Repo <scmuser@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM, David Hláčik <david@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, ATI finally released drivers working with xorg 1.5 shipped in Fedora. >>> >>> What really makes me angry is ,that ATI ignored Fedora, and now when >>> Ubuntu Interpid is about to come .. here it is .. new drivers. >>> >>> Read this article ... >>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=canonical_catalyst_811 >>>&num=1 >> >> It's business in the end. Ubuntu officially ships with quite a few >> laptops/desktops from major names (Dell, Acer) and hence the priority >> (and pressure from the vendors to release drivers). >> >> Fedora is .. well a .."community" distribution without commercial >> partnerships and hence not on AMD's priority list. > >Has anybody installed the driver? If this is the same small patch posted to fix my entry in their buglist, yes, it fixes the 8-9 code so it will build and install for kernel 2.6.27 final. The patch: --- firegl_public.c 2008-10-14 16:17:22.000000000 -0300 +++ firegl_public.c 2008-10-14 16:06:01.000000000 -0300 @@ -2924,7 +2924,7 @@ { #ifdef __SMP__ /* write back invalidate all other CPUs (exported by kernel) */ - if (smp_call_function(deferred_flush, NULL, 1, 0) != 0) + if (smp_call_function(deferred_flush, NULL, 0) != 0) panic("timed out waiting for the other CPUs!\n"); /* invalidate this CPU */ @@ -4654,7 +4654,7 @@ } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP - if (smp_call_function(KCL_setup_pat, NULL, 0, 1) != 0) + if (smp_call_function(KCL_setup_pat, NULL, 1) != 0) return 0; #endif KCL_setup_pat(NULL); @@ -4673,7 +4673,7 @@ } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP - if (smp_call_function(KCL_restore_pat, NULL, 0, 1) != 0) + if (smp_call_function(KCL_restore_pat, NULL, 1) != 0) return; #endif KCL_restore_pat(NULL); Unforch, the resultant driver runs like a half legged dog. Not 3.5 legs mind you, but only 0.5 legs! This driver expects to talk to the dri functions through a /dev/dri/card# interface, but udev does not build those entries. The net result is that a 3 line scroll in firefox, something the radeon driver can do instantly on a pci-e ATI HD2400-Pro card, actually takes about 4 seconds using the fglrx driver. All those screen redraws give me a headache not even Anacin can fix. I can re-enable it, restart x, and post the Xorg.0.log someplace if anybody cares. Reading it, I seem to want to blame udev for this miss-fire. I've asked xorg when we will see support for the currently shipping ati cards, but they are buried in getting 1.5 out the door and stable, so about the time ati disco's that chipset and goes to the next, we might get full support for last years cards. Damn I wish these people could all get on the same page. Half the tv(time for instance) and web video out there doesn't run on this card due to missing support for a video mode called YUY2 overlay. ATI has supposedly given us the info to write drivers for their cards, and to me, it looks like the figurative "we" have dropped the ball. >> Steve >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >> Guidelines: >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
