xf86-video-ati and Radeon HD 7600M Series

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Dec 5 00:53:20 PST 2012


On Die, 2012-12-04 at 20:55 +0100, thilo at cestona.ro wrote: 
> 
> I really try to test mesa either 8.0.5 or mesa latest git ... but I've 
> no idea how to double check if all is using mesa latest or get the 8.0.5 
> compiled with the rest of my system.
> 
> The problem with 8.0.5 is, that it is incompatible with the llvm libs 
> installed, as it is ubuntu 13.04 pre ...
> 
> Currently I have build mesa latest git via "./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr" 
> and installed. So I guess everthing is using this, but glxinfo gives 
> mesa 9.0.1 instead of 9.1.0 which is the version from config.log.... 
> (appended is the output the end of configure script, what it compiles 
> and so on).
> 
> Any hints about how to check which mesa version is used?

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep -e ' render' -e 'OpenGL version'

shows you:

      * Which r600_dri.so it's picking up 
      * Whether it's using direct rendering 
      * Whether it's using hardware acceleration 
      * The Mesa version


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Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer


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