radeon driver: checkpoint

[Roland Scheidegger]

Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> David Gómez wrote:
>> Hi Benjamin,
>>
>> On 3/17/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 01:36 +0100, David Gómez wrote:
>>>> Hi Benjamin,
>>>> On 3/17/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> 
>>>> wrote:> Do you have DRI enabled ?
>>>> No, it's disabled. Here the xorg.conf which i'm using now:
>>> Does it work if you enable it then ?
>>
>> I don't have the DRI drivers compiled, tomorrow i'll download Mesa CVS
>> and try to see if there is any change (now it's a bit late  here ;)).
>> Anyway, it should work with DRI disabled, isn't it?
> You don't really need Mesa CVS, the radeon kernel drm module is 
> sufficient (if you don't plan on running 3d apps).
> It should work without drm, but the driver xv (and xaa too) use very 
> different methods of uploading data if dri is enabled or not (in 
> particular xv should be faster with drm).
> Though if you have a x300, you probably need the patch from here, 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5413, as otherwise the pci 
> id is probably not recognized.
Ok it now is, so you don't need the patch any longer with drm cvs.

Roland