From: Alex D. <ale...@gm...> - 2007-10-06 14:52:54
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On 10/6/07, Chris Jacques <chr...@gm...> wrote: > Is it at all likely that ATI will release the specs of the Xpress chips? > probably, but I'm not sure when. > 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? depends on where the problem is, but I'd say an iba variant for CP buffers and valgrind for mmio. Alex > > 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> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-users mailing list > Dri...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-users > > |