Re: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?

[Gerhard Mack]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Martin Drab wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:41:27 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Martin Drab <drab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?
> 
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me if there are working open source DRM drivers that work 
> > on recent 2.6.x kernels for the ATI X300?  I've tried dri.sourceforge.net 
> > and r300 but neither seems to even bother compiling.  I've spent several 
> > hours on google without luck.
> > 
> > 	Gerhard
> 
> Have you seen this
> 
> 	http://r300.sourceforge.net/
> 
> However, I'm not sure how much useable it is allready. Perhaps not much. 
> Otherwise you would probably either have to stick with the ATI's binary 
> drivers or open source unaccelerated drivers. I'm not aware of anything 
> else being available for recent ATI chips.

Although those drivers support the card, they do not compile on recent 
kernels.  I managed to hack it to compile and then ended up with X being 
unable to access the /dev/dri/card* devices.

	Gerhard

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Gerhard Mack

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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