From: Chris J. <chr...@gm...> - 2007-10-06 06:42:49
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Is it at all likely that ATI will release the specs of the Xpress chips? I'll give the reverse-engineering methods some testing in a little while, once I have some time on my hands. Should I try all the tools listed on that page, or just certain specific ones? Thank you, Chris On 10/6/07, Alex Deucher <ale...@gm...> wrote: > > On 10/5/07, Chris Jacques <chr...@gm...> wrote: > > Ok, is there anything I can do help in order to get it working? > > > > I'm guessing that it would take a lot of work to get it running, and I > would > > guess that this is the reason that is not working now. Am I correct? > > > > I would like to help if anybody requires hardware testing. > > > > Thank you very much for reporting information on the status of the > driver. > > If 3D works at all on your laptop, then it's just a matter of fixing > the 3D driver (although easier said than done). If it doesn't (some > XPRESS chips don't function at all when 3D is enabled), you've got a > lot more work ahead of you. IIRC, when using compiz on XPRESS chips > the textures are scaled incorrectly. If you have a regular r300/r400 > chip you can simulate this behavior by disabling tcl. You'd just need > to sort out what's happening and fix it. if compiz works on XPRESS > chips with fglrx, you can probably reverse engineer what additional > state it need to work. See this page for more information: > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReverseEngineering > Either that or wait for ati to release information about the XPRESS chips. > > Alex > -- The GNU weedman <kernel.org> |