[Mesa3d-dev] radeon r200 TCL in xorg-video-ati 6.10

[martin k. <blu...@gm...>]

hello.

I have been experiencing difficulties trying to get fixed-pipeline TCL
and ARBVP1 hardware support for an ATI 9250 PCI board (chip id 0x5960)
under Xorg 1.5.3 and FOSS ATI DRI edge 6.10, running on a ppc station.
Is there such a know issue or does my problem present an isolated
case?

for the record, glxinfo -i reports nothing wrong on the subject:

$ glxinfo -l
<snip>
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20060602 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.2
<snip>
OpenGL limits:
    <snip>
    GL_MAX_ELEMENTS_VERTICES = 3000
    GL_MAX_ELEMENTS_INDICES = 3000
    <snip>
    GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_ARB:
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_INSTRUCTIONS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_TEMPORARIES_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_TEMPORARIES_ARB = 12
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_PARAMETERS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_PARAMETERS_ARB = 192
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_ATTRIBS_ARB = 16
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_ATTRIBS_ARB = 12
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_ADDRESS_REGISTERS_ARB = 1
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_ADDRESS_REGISTERS_ARB = 1
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_LOCAL_PARAMETERS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_ENV_PARAMETERS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_ALU_INSTRUCTIONS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_TEX_INSTRUCTIONS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_TEX_INDIRECTIONS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_ALU_INSTRUCTIONS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_TEX_INSTRUCTIONS_ARB = 128
        GL_MAX_PROGRAM_NATIVE_TEX_INDIRECTIONS_ARB = 128

but the exhibited performance degradation of more than a decimal order
of magnitude compared to the same test case on a quite similar hw
configuration, just under osx, suggests software emulation.

here's the complete components version info as seen in Xorg.0.log:

$ grep -A 6 -e "LoadModule: \"dri\"" -e "LoadModule: \"ati\"" -e
"LoadModule: \"radeon\"" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) LoadModule: "dri"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "ati"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
(II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.10.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.10.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1

thank you for your time,
martin