From: Ludovic B. <lu...@lu...> - 2008-04-15 21:02:34
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Hello, Tonight I finally took the time to enable DRI on my laptop. I understand that support for my particular chipset is experimental and currently "needs more testing on differing models", and I hereby offer help for testing. DRI appears to work and glxgears says: Warning, xpress200 detected. 2066 frames in 5.0 seconds = 413.009 FPS 2078 frames in 5.0 seconds = 415.508 FPS 2066 frames in 5.0 seconds = 413.098 FPS 2070 frames in 5.0 seconds = 413.984 FPS 2099 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.766 FPS I would like to know if there is a particular area of the driver, or a particular feature of the chipset, that needs testing. What can I do to help? lspci -nn says: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge [1002:5950] (rev 10) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f] 00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a38] 00:12.0 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller [1002:4379] (rev 80) 00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4374] (rev 80) 00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4375] (rev 80) 00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller [1002:4373] (rev 80) 00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller [1002:4372] (rev 81) 00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller [1002:4376] (rev 80) 00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller [1002:437b] (rev 01) 00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge [1002:4377] (rev 80) 00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge [1002:4371] (rev 80) 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100] 00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101] 00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102] 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] [1002:5975] 02:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:169c] (rev 03) 02:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller [104c:8039] 30:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01) My laptop is a HP Compaq nx6325 with AMD Turion TL-60 (dual-core, 2 GHz) with 2 GiB RAM, running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable with the following relevant packages: ii linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64 2.6.24-5 Linux 2.6.24 image on AMD64 ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-3 Xorg X server - core server ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.2-3 X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.3-2 X.Org X server -- mouse input driver ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070706-2 Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86 ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.0-1 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver ii freeglut3 2.4.0-6 OpenGL Utility Toolkit ii libgl1-mesa-dev 7.0.3~rc2-2 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- G ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.0.3~rc2-2 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- D ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.0.3~rc2-2 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- G ii libglu1-mesa 7.0.3~rc2-2 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii libglu1-mesa-dev 7.0.3~rc2-2 The OpenGL utility library -- development fi ii mesa-common-dev 7.0.3~rc2-2 Developer documentation for Mesa ii mesa-utils 7.0.3~rc2-2 Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities -- Ludovic Brenta. |