Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [XFree86] ati rage pro - hardware acceleration

[F. <j_r...@ya...>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:42:41PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> jordan muscott wrote:
> >Greets all,
> >
> >Linux-mandrake 8.1 , kernel 2.4.18
> >PIII 
> >ati rage pro - mach64.
> >
> >On the above setup i can get hardware acceleration with the Xfree 3.3.6
> >that came with my distro via GLX. I built Xfree 4.2 from the mandrake
> >8.2 src rpms because i read that the support for my card was better with
> >4.2 than with the 4.1 which came with my distro.
> >
> >However, having just tried to play Chromium (
> >http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/ ), i realise that i am
> >still only getting this acceleration with 3.3.6. A quick google lead me
> >to read this :http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/faq.html , and now I am
> >faultering with ignorance. Do I need to compile Xfree4.2 with DRI
> >enabled?
> 
> There is currently no "official" support for hardware accelerated OpenGL 
> on this card w/XFree86 4.x.x.  However, there are some folks who have 
> been working on a driver.  I'm not that familiar with that driver.  I'm 
> CC'ing this message to the dri-devel list.  Hopefully one of the RagePro 
> (aka mach64) developers on there can point you in the right direction.

Jordan, see Leif's page http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_status.html for information about the driver status and how to build it.

The driver is mostly done, but several things have been delaying the merge:
 - insecure DMA model which didn't allow us to give more control to the
   client.
 - insuficiency of the DRM DMA engine in handling this chip
   specificities which will force to extend/rewrite the DRM DMA engine
   API.
 - not much free time to do the remaining bits...

Regards,

José Fonseca
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