Radeon x300-x800, Xvideo and DRI?

[Rune Petersen]

Hi,

As a user I can tell you how it works for me.

My setup is an X800 XT AGP in an Athlon XP system and I've been using 
DRI for some months now.

I have no idea as to the stability of PCI-E, dial-monitors, or dual-link.

XVideo:
XVideo works fine as long as you don't use OSD on top of the video 
(causes corruption around the OSD).

DRI:
DRI works fine in many cases as long as your expectations are too high ( 
no Doom 3 & Quake 4 doesn't work :)
Also you have to use the Xorg CVS for the best result.

http://megahurts.dk/rune/r300_status.html

YMMV


Rune Petersen

Mikko Rauhala wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been trying to get my hands on some recent information regarding
> the support level of x300-x800 Radeons. From what I can tell, they
> should basically work, and DRI is available though experimental.
> However, I have some specific questions:
> 
> Does Xvideo at least work reliably for these chipsets, or at least some
> of them? I can live with mostly solid 2D+Xvideo support for now, though
> at least semifunctional DRI would be a nice bonus. Hence, are there
> major differences with the stability of the DRI driver between x300,
> x550, x700 and x800? Basically I'd rather buy in the low end, not being
> very needy in this respect, but if those chipsets happen to work less
> well for any reason, I can aim higher.
> 
> Possibly relevant information: Setup would be Ubuntu Linux, AMD64X2,
> PCI-E, 2x1600x1200 VGA monitors. I know the caveat about r300 and
> 2560x2560 total DRI rendering area, and can live with it. Can aid in
> debugging, though not actual development. I don't expect everything on a
> silver platter.
> 
> (Oh, I was trying to find a card capable of driving a dual-link DVI
> 2560x1600 LCD using free drivers, but those seemed to be in nonexistant
> supply, hence I've shelved my display upgrade plans for now. If I've
> missed something with respect to this, I'd be glad to hear it.)
> 
> Thank you for any information.
>