On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Philip Pokorny wrote: >A while back you posted that you had updated RADEON drivers for 4.3 that >fixed PCI/AGP detection issues and included a number of improvements. Yep, that patch went into rawhide then, and is present and enabled still. No bug reports to date, and lots of happy users, so I presume it works well across the board so far. >I'm trying to get the best 2D (and hopefully 3D) graphics that I can on >a 64-bit OS for an Opteron workstation. I haven't tested it on AMD64, but a few others did and it worked fine for them so far. >Unfortunately, the nVidia drivers while working in 2D sometimes, have >been a bust most of the time. Unfortunately, as far as the 'nv' driver goes, there isn't much we can do to fix bugs in it, although occasionally certain bugs manifest which do not require technical specs nor detailed understanding of the hardware or register layout, however they're rarer. I don't know how 64bit clean or AMD64 clean the 'nv' driver is however. >Likewise, I've had problems getting the RADEON drivers to work as well. > >Some of this was caused by the unique architecture of the Tyan >S2885 (K8W) motherboard. The Linux AGP bug related to AGP >bridge detection on that motherboard has been documented and >fixed. That sounds more like a kernel issue than a Radeon driver issue. >But still, DRI, 3D and multi-head/Xinerama support elude me. Assuming your AGP bridge is supported, DRI should work on AMD64 for all Radeon hardware that it works on for x86. While only Radeon 7500 is officially tested and supported on paper for our AMD64 port, I plan on supporting all Radeon equally as we do on x86. That said, 3D should work, as should Xinerama if properly configured. I recommend if you're having problems on AMD64, that you try using the 32bit OS version first, and see if it isn't just a configuration issue, as it really should work equally well. >Your previous post implied that you had created RPM's for AMD64, >but I can't find them on your site at the URL provided. ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-45/x86_64 Note however, that any directories and/or packages located under my testing directory are temporary, and may disappear at any time, so please do not link URLs to these, and make backup copies in case you need them in the future. I delete older stuff once newer stuff is available, or when I need space for other stuff and my disk quota gets maxed out. ;o) >Can you update me and the list on the status of your RADEON >driver development (perhaps including the Merged Framebuffer >support?) and make AMD64 RPM's available? x86_64 rpms are at the above URL, compiled in rawhide for Fedora Core, which may or may not work on RHEL3. If they don't work on RHEL 3, you can edit the spec file, and enable the build_taroon macro, and disable the build_rawhide macro, then edit the Release: tag, and add to the end of it "custom" or somesuch to differ it from official builds, then rebuild the rpm and it should be ok. Merged framebuffer support for Radeon is highly experimental, and it will only appear in my rpms once it is integrated into a stable release of XFree86, or CVS HEAD rpm builds in the future. MergedFB support exists for SiS and Matrox however in 4.4.0. Any new "features" in XFree86 wont appear until there is a new XFree86 release more or less. Hope this helps. TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
