[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.5 Release

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Klaus Dittrich wrote:
>Matthias Hopf schrieb:
>> Announcing the 1.2.5 Release of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver.
>>
>> RadeonHD is the X.org X11 driver for AMD GPG (ATI) r5xx/r6xx/r7xx
>> chipsets. The development is driven by Novell and AMD at the time of
>> writing, together with a community of open source developers around this
>> driver.
>> AMD provides free documentation for the chipsets.
>>
>> Note the wiki on http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
>>
>>
>> Version 1.2.5 improvements:
>>
>>   - Added 2D acceleration for R6xx and R7xx.
>>   - Added XVideo support for R6xx and R7xx.
>>   - Added support for RS880 and RV790.
>>   - Added RandR 1.3 mandatory properties.
>>   - Refactoring of MC code.
>>   - Enable DRI support by default on R5xx and RS6xx.
>>   - LUT (color lookup table) fixes.
>>   - Tons of quirk table entries and bug fixes.
>>   - Fix register accesses for processors that reorder memory writes.
>>
>>
>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd
>>-1.2.5.tar.gz MD5:  0d024ace7aac324f79a9f516aaba68a0 
>> xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5.tar.gz SHA1:
>> 5bc97e7b9ed24669466c6bdebcf7062cd790c8f3  xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5.tar.gz
>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd
>>-1.2.5.tar.bz2 MD5:  10669b08101cb6d69894cc44b47e5094 
>> xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5.tar.bz2 SHA1:
>> 64fc0eb5209adba5479396bafe53b50ded6c0940 
>> xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5.tar.bz2
>>
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
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>
>Just tried it out ..
>
>..
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling DAC_LoadDetection
>(II) RADEONHD(0): DAC_LoadDetection Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling BlankCRTC
>(II) RADEONHD(0): BlankCRTC Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling BlankCRTC
>(II) RADEONHD(0): BlankCRTC Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling EnableCRTC
>(II) RADEONHD(0): EnableCRTC Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling EnableCRTCMemReq
>(II) RADEONHD(0): EnableCRTCMemReq Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling EnableCRTC
>(II) RADEONHD(0): EnableCRTC Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling EnableCRTCMemReq
>(II) RADEONHD(0): EnableCRTCMemReq Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling SetPixelClock
>(II) RADEONHD(0): SetPixelClock Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Calling SetPixelClock
>(II) RADEONHD(0): SetPixelClock Successful
>(II) RADEONHD(0): Query for Restore Registers: failed
>
>Chip is a RV610.

Same story, different verse here, and I am still in very cold molasses for 
scrolling.
From the log:
(II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.5, built from git branch master, commit cb54f48b
[...]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) RADEONHD(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(**) RADEONHD(0): Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
(**) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI" "on"
(**) RADEONHD(0): Selected EXA 2D acceleration.
(II) RADEONHD(0): Unknown card detected: 0x94C3:0x1092:0x0710.
        If - and only if - your card does not work or does not work optimally
        please contact radeonhd at opensuse.org to help rectify this.
        Use the subject: 0x94C3:0x1092:0x0710: <name of board>
        and *please* describe the problems you are seeing
        in your message.
(--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an RV610 on an unidentified card
[...]
(WW) RADEONHD(0): rhdAtomAllocateFbScratch: FW FB scratch area 536854528 
(size: 16384) extends beyond available framebuffer size 268435456
(II) RADEONHD(0): Cannot get VRAM scratch space. Allocating in main memory 
instead
[...]
(WW) RADEONHD(0): Direct rendering for R600 and up forced on - This is NOT 
officially supported yet and may cause instability or lockups
(II) RADEONHD(0): Found libdri 5.4.0.
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:03:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19
[...]
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[...]
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
(EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen("radeon", "pci:0000:03:00.0") 
failed.
(WW) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIPreInit: Version check failed. Disabling DRI.

And I'm still getting migraines from the psychedelic scrolling.

Kernel has dri enabled, and is 2.6.29.1-rc2.

-- 
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