Re: R300 driver on AMD64

[Vladimir D. <vo...@mi...>]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Jan Kreuzer wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> i tried Vladimir Dergachevs R300 driver on my AMD64 Gentoo System and had 
> some success. I downloaded the patches from the r300.sourceforge.net site and 
> applied the drm-driver patch against kernel-2.6.9-rc2 (because the drm module 
> i got from dri-cvs wouldn't work). Then i applied the patch for the 2d-driver 
> against Xorg-6.8.0 (the gentoo r1 release). After fiddling around with the 2 
> rejects that where produced i compiled xorg and started it. Everything seems 
> to be fine (the logs say that drm is enabled and dmesg reports that r300 
> microcode got loaded). When i tried the r300_demo programm it first stated 
> unsupported card. So i forced it in RV350 mode and it did run. However the 
> screenshots i made look a little bit different then the ones Vladimir did, 
> but my machine didn't locked up ;-). I don't know if it is allowed to send

The "triangle and the square" screenshot is old, r300_demo now displays
"two triangles" one of which is more colorful than before :)

> attachments to this list, if it is i will send another email with the 
> screenshots as an attachment and with my logs and dmesg output if anyone is 
> interested. I could also send patches against the drm-module of 2.6.9-rc2 and 
> the ati-driver of xorg-6.8.0 if they are of interest. I would also try to 
> help to get this driver into a better state, however i am not an programmer, 
> but i would like to test new versions of the driver on my amd64 system.

Thank you !  Could you e-mail me your SF handle so I can add you to the 
developer list ?

>
> Lspci gives the following output for my card (to be included into r300_demo):
> 0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4150
> 0000:01:00.1 0380: 1002:4170
> It is an Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro (RV350 AP).

I just added it to CVS - thank you !

                           Vladimir Dergachev


> Thanks for your work and greetings
>
> Jan Kreuzer
>
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