Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release

Alex Deucher has announced a new release candidate for the next xf86-video-ati driver release. The xf86-video-ati 6.11 release has a major rework when it comes to the display output code along with a memory corruption fix for the ATI RS780 memory controller...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzA1NA

[RealNC]

I suppose this doesn't support 3D for HD4xxx boards yet?

[Chewi]

That's certainly what I want know. I'm guessing not, otherwise it would have said so. :(

[Nille]

I suppose this doesn't support 3D for HD4xxx boards yet?

<°(((((<(

For HD4XXX there is current only HW Accel on a dev branch.

[sundown]

Oh, quit whining, I had to wait 2 years for 3d! Besides, it's the other driver which will implement 3d for your boards first.

[bridgman]

3D support is actually handled by the mesa and drm drivers, not radeon/radeonhd. The radeon/radeonhd drivers just need to initialize the drm and support the dri protocol to co-exist with the 3D driver, and that support is already there.

Mesa is the "missing link" for 3D on 6xx/7xx right now - and is what we're working on now.

[Louise]

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

got updated today as well.

[oyvind]

Nice to see the open source driver progressing. Hoping for a release soon with some fixes for R500-corruption issues when using EXA acceleration (yes, the bugs have all been filed :)).