On 04/12/2011 06:12 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > There are two major package classes in Fedora that provide graphics > drivers: xorg-x11-drv-*, and mesa-dri-drivers-*. > > In F15, mesa-dri-drivers now only includes drivers with DRI2 support > (radeon, nvidia, intel) and the software renderer; if you want all the > older drivers you have to install mesa-dri-drivers-dri1. This list is: > > i810, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, unichrome > > Basically all of this hardware is, ahem, inept. The most featureful > device supported by these drivers would be the MGA G550, which just > barely manages to do DirectX 7 (comparable to a Radeon 7000 or GeForce > 2, both ~1999 vintage). All the others are back in the DX6 stone age. > For comparison, the baseline for the GPU in the phone in your pocket - > and that platform layers like clutter more or less expect - is GLES 2.0, > which is roughly comparable to DirectX 9. We're rapidly approaching the > point where the software renderer is going to be a more satisfying > experience than hardware 3d support for these chips, both for features > and for performance. > > So in my ideal world, we would simply drop the -dri1 subpackage (and for > that matter, DRI1 support in the X server). > > For 2D we've got an xorg-x11-drivers metapackage that includes, well, > pretty much everything, and which is included in comps as a default. > This is lame, because it means a bunch of backwater drivers end up as > critical path and can never possibly get tested. (Smolt says there are > all of 3 savage users. I assume the number of i740 users is actually > negative.) The list of video drivers that see any actual use is > probably something like: > > ast, ati, cirrus, fbdev, geode, intel, mga, nouveau, openchrome, > qxl, sis/xgi, vesa, vmware > Would this affect the way KVM and specifically qemu-kvm in it's default setup for video using the cirrus driver would work? Just wondering if there would be any implications for the virt guys in that regard. Thanks & regards, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Supervisor Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@xxxxxxxxxx> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany Motd: You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
