Re: Status of X600 (5B62) support inquiry; bug 5413

[Benjamin H. <be...@ke...>]

> For Q1, the status is that it should work, but apparently it locks up 
> for some unknown reason for some people. There was a significant fix for 
> potential lockup problems in the radeon ddx driver in xorg modular cvs, 
> which may or not help you. You should try the snapshots, you can try 
> patching the drm that comes with them or use your own, there is not much 
> you can do to build it wrong. Which gets us to Q2, that patch 4745 is 
> needed for drm/dri (and dma ddx) support of new radeons (it is nothing 
> more than new ids, all the cleanup was commited), but it's not in cvs 
> because it sometimes causes lockups (even though the lockups aren't 
> exactly caused by drm, but xorg ddx if it uses the drm module). (Note 
> though that the ids of new radeons already present in drm are just as 
> likely to cause lockups as those which aren't.)

There are more fixes comming into the DDX everyday or so too :) So if it
doesn't work, you may want to lurk at the CVS commit list and retry
regulary.

Ben.