DRI with r300 on Radeon 9800 possible

[Xavier Bestel]

On sam, 2006-12-02 at 12:49 +0100, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On 12/2/06, Florian Dorpmueller <dorpmueller at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to bring up DRI working for a Radeon 9800 with the r300 from
> > sourceforge and the free radeon driver?
> >
> > All my trials until yet have endet in "drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22 (exiting)".
> > But "glxinfo | grep direct" gives me "direct rendering: Yes".
> >
> > My Linux is Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy.
> > libgl1-mesa-glx is version 6.5.1~20060817-0ubuntu3
> > libgl1-mesa-dri is version 6.5.1~20060817-0ubuntu3
> >
> > Any hints will be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Flroian
> 
> r300 sf is outdated and r300 support is in mesa since quite a time.
> You should have dri with r300 in edgy outof the box uninstall
> you own compiled dri/drm module and make sure ubuntu one
> are used.
> 
> Then check xorg log for direct rendering enabled if not check for
> WW or EE and see what glxinfo report, you may try
> LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
> to have more information in case that fail.
> 
> All this informations and much more are on dri.freedesktop.org.

Be aware that the driver is unfinished yet, and that it deadlocks from
time to time (esp. with compiz).

	Xav