Status of ATI driver

[Terry Barnaby]

On 07/24/2009 04:55 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Terry Barnaby<terry1 at beam.ltd.uk>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Due to the problems I am having with ATI Radeon cards under Fedora 11, I thought
>> I would try the latest GIT source tree. I am using the standard Fedora *-devel
>> packages and just trying to build the drivers only. When I try to build
>> the xf86-video-ati driver I get the error:
>>
>>    CC    radeon_textured_video.o
>> In file included from radeon_textured_video.c:148:
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘RADEONDisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:109: warning: implicit declaration of function
>> ‘radeon_cs_space_reset_bos’
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:110: warning: implicit declaration of function
>> ‘radeon_cs_space_add_persistent_bo’
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:118: error: too few arguments to function
>> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘R200DisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
>>
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:507: error: too few arguments to function
>> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘R300DisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
>>
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:1049: error: too few arguments to function
>> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘R500DisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
>>
>> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:2500: error: too few arguments to function
>> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
>>
>> Plus others. There does not appear to be a radeon_cs_space_reset_bos()
>> function in the xf86-video-ati source tree.
>> Is the xf86-video-ati driver in a buildable state ?
>
> You need a newer libdrm_radeon and kernel drm bits to build and use
> the latest ddx/mesa bits from git.  The stuff shipped in f11 isn't
> compatible.
>
> Alex
Thanks for the info. I will go in a bit deeper ...

Cheers


Terry