Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 9000 patch

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:54:51PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:31:31PM +0000, dri...@sc... wrote:
> 
> > With an old binary snapshot (over a month old) I got my Radeon 9000 Pro
> > card working with XFree86 including DRI support.  This was achieved by
> > setting the ChipId in the XF86Config file to 0x4242.
> >
> > I noticed that the latest drivers actually recognise the card (RV250_If),
> > but that DRI is disabled, so I created the attached patch against CVS from
> > 20021026.  This gets DRI working on my system using the r200 DRI driver.
> > It's not perfect, but it works.  Thought you might like to apply the patch
> > so others can have DRI on the Radeon 9000 and 9700 cards. 
> 
> That is very interesting.  I guess it's not too surprising since the Radeon
> 9000 is to the 8500 as the 7500 is to the 7200 (basically).  When you say
> "it's not perfect," what exactly doesn't work?

Well, i think the 9000 took the dual-head stuff from the 7500, not the
8500, so this may be one thing that is not working.

There may be other differences too.

Friendly,

Sven Luther