More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release [LWN.net]

More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Posted Dec 23, 2005 0:07 UTC (Fri) by AndyBurns (guest, #27521)
In reply to: More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release by smoogen
Parent article: More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

That's certainly how it goes with FC5/rawhide, to force fglrx binary drivers to install I had to make soft links for the old X11R6 directories, but I've switched back to the xorg radeon drivers now :-)

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More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Posted Dec 23, 2005 6:58 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link] (1 responses)

Are you using r300 or r400 based card? Has vanilla Xorg 7.0 now got the r300 DRI/3D features enabled? It's been under heavy work recently, and it'd be nice to know if now 9500-X800 card would possibly have some (not great, but still something and in open source) 3D support out of the box. The "r300" driver works also for r4xx-based cards, as they are so similar to each other.

At some point I got the impression that the 3D features might be disabled by default because of some stability problems with specific 9800 cards. Anyway, the modularity of of Xorg 7.0 makes it easier of course for distributors and others to provide 3D-enabled ati drivers.

More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Posted Dec 23, 2005 12:20 UTC (Fri) by AndyBurns (guest, #27521) [Link]

> Are you using r300 or r400 based card?

PCIe X550 which is RV370

> Has vanilla Xorg 7.0 now got the r300 DRI/3D features enabled?

Not for my card, there is a message in Xorg.0.log saying it has disabled it, it think it is conditional on the card.

I'm more interested in 2D + video overlay which works ok since RC3