fire-eyes wrote:
Hi,
I am interested in getting my ATI X300 (r300 or r370, conflicting info out
there), which is a PCIe card, working with DRI with open source drivers. I am
using xorg-x11-7.1 .
r370 is the chipset on the card, r300 is the (experimental) DRI driver
that would be supporting it.
Any ideas? I am specifically looking for ways of doing this not including
messing with overlays, that is a major pain, and (opinon) I shouldn't have to
do that anyway.
Set VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" or USE="video_cards_radeon", and emerge -N
xorg-x11. Worked for me (Radeon 9600 XT) as of the first X -configure
run, with no additional messing about. The driver name is "radeon" if
you like to do xorg.conf by hand.
Disclaimer: The DRI functionality is still experimental. Some functions
(specular lighting in particular) don't behave exactly as expected. For
example, a couple of XScreensaver hacks don't work quite right for me.
Still a darn sight better than software, though... ;)
Cheers.
HTH.
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