[Openchrome-users] Direct Rendering, Openchrome, and VIA Chrome9

[Gustavo Guillermo Perez]

El Martes, 11 de Agosto de 2009, S?ren Wellh?fer escribi?:
> Dear openchrome community,
>
> I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on a notebook that is equipped with a VIA Chrome 9
> chip. The question I have is regarding the issue of direct rendering and
> drm which currently does not seem to be supported by the openchrome driver.
Well, I've tryed to get working hardware acceleration on this card (VX 820 
Unichrome 9), and I do! (more or less not know if mesa do the rest).

http://www.compunauta.net/blog/article.php?id=203&catid=44

I think there is some kind of hardware acceleration cause glxgears prompts and 
show an average 100fps (look at the screenshot), but kde 4 require more 
advanced shadow opengl functions that lacks on mesa I guess. I'm following 
this (kde is not too much verbose as I want about why is not applying the 3d 
effects).

May be you can retry your config, at least to try run compiz.

> Although there exists a proprietary kernel module adding dri supporting for
> Ubuntu 8.10, VIA has not release anything similar for Ubuntu 9.04 as of
> yet.
>
> So the question I have is, will there be support for dri in openchrome at
> some point?
>
> I think it was in december of last that I was enlightened to read a news
> article talking about VIA's willingness to cooperate with the openchrome
> project in matters regarding 3D acceleration.
>
> To the contrary, I have recently heard of rumours saying that VIA will not
> at all back up the the efforts brought forth by the openchrome project.
>
> So what's the status on this, does anybody know anything more precis?
> It would be really nice to have it working as I'm really not keen on using
> anything proprietary anyways ...
>
> Thank you all!
>
> S?ren



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