On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 05:53, Leigh Dyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 02:25, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 04:50, Leigh Dyer wrote: 
> > > 
> > > The radeon-accel-init.diff patch seemed to work okay at first - the X
> > > server started normally, but with DRI disabled, as expected. I've
> > > attached my X log confirming this.
> > > 
> > > After applying the drm-agp-acquire.diff patch, the X server begins to
> > > load, and the log shows that AGP initialisation fails, the system drops
> > > back to PCI mode, and DRI is enabled. However, initialisation stops at
> > > the line:
> > > 
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
> > > 
> > > I've attached the log of this session as well. I also happened to
> > > accidentally test the server using a DRM module compiled from your
> > > packaged sources, and it stopped in the same place (though I didn't
> > > think to check whether or not AGP or DRI were successfully enabled).
> > 
> > Weird. It would be interesting to see the log from that, as well as what
> > happens with only drm-agp-acquire.diff applied but without
> > radeon-accel-init.diff . Thank you for your testing.
> > 
> 
> I just tried things with the drm-agp-acquire patch but without the
> radeon-accel-init patch - X came up without a problem, and DRI works,
> albeit slowly. 

Yes, PCI GART is known to be extremely slow on recent Macs for some
reason.

> The log confirms AGP initialisation fails cleanly, and
> DRI is successfully enabled in PCI mode.

Cool. I was afraid that radeon-accel-init.diff could break subtly (funny
that it worked for me and you the first time though), I've only
committed drm-agp-acquire.diff for now.


> Using a DRM module compiled from your packaged sources along with my
> compiled DRI CVS seems to work very well. The DRM module reports itself
> as version 1.8.0, while the DRM module in DRI CVS is 1.9.0 - is this
> worth worrying about for the moment?

No, 1.9 is only needed for GL_NV_texture_rectangle support in
radeon_dri.so .


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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