A few questions.

[neuron]

Hi, I'm on gentoo64 and I just got a X1650 (RV535) card from recomendations here : http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10982

Now I'm a software developer myself, so I dont mind getting my hands dirty, but there's a few things I was wondering about.

1 : Is there any way to get tvout + pal working on my card? Running current git of the radeon driver I get:

(II) RADEON(0): Skipping TV-Out

And xrandr shows nothing interesting, ripping out the part in the code that disables it, I can see s-video showing up, and it detects resolutions, but enabling them does nothing (some flickering on tv + main monitor).


2 : Is there a mirror of xorg git? I've been trying to build git xorg-server+mesa+xf86-video-ati for 2-3 days now, and it always screws up somewhere. Right now I can't checkout git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xcb, I get "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly" when I try. I'd really like to get compiz working, and I'm fairly sure I can do so without problems if I can only get the code :p


3 : Can I run a framebuffer + working (with compiz) X without difficulties? It's something I couldn't do with my nvidia card, I tried compiling in support for everything and rebooting, but the FB didn't kick in, it worked on my R200 card, did I miss something or should this not be working?

[bridgman]

1. re: tvout, we're still having trouble getting tvout working with the new display controllers (X1xxx and up). We're focusing on 6xx/7xx 3d right now; probably will dig deeper into tvout in a month or two

2. mirror of xorg/freedesktop git - haven't heard of one

3. re: framebuffer do you mean the vesa driver or something like radeonfb ? radeonfb doesn't support the newer chips and most of the FB stuff is going to be replaced by kernel modesetting "as soon as humanly possible" :D

[neuron]

1. re: tvout, we're still having trouble getting tvout working with the new display controllers (X1xxx and up). We're focusing on 6xx/7xx 3d right now; probably will dig deeper into tvout in a month or two

Is there any experimentation I can do myself to get progress here? I've been a software developer for years, but the only lowlevel work I've done is on filesystems.

2. mirror of xorg/freedesktop git - haven't heard of one

I've put the nvidia card in now, and I'm gonna keep it until I can grab the latest xorg :P

3. re: framebuffer do you mean the vesa driver or something like radeonfb ? radeonfb doesn't support the newer chips and most of the FB stuff is going to be replaced by kernel modesetting "as soon as humanly possible" :D

Didn't even occur to me to use the vesa fb, it completely screws up nvidia's driver (think it was graphic corruption or something, I remember ruling that out as an option ages ago :p ), but if it works it's plenty for my usage, I was only looking for a slightly prettier bootup screen ;)

Thanks a lot for the help :)