R500 DRI Support Goes Widespread

[phoronix]

Phoronix: R500 DRI Support Goes Widespread

AMD's Alex Deucher has taken the Mesa r500test branch maintained by David Airlie for the open-source ATI R500 work and has pushed it into Mesa's r500-support branch. This branch is for those looking to play with the initial open-source R500 DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjQ1Ng

[butdie]

how far away is compiz on r500?

couple of weeks?

Phoronix: R500 DRI Support Goes Widespread

AMD's Alex Deucher has taken the Mesa r500test branch maintained by David Airlie for the open-source ATI R500 work and has pushed it into Mesa's r500-support branch. This branch is for those looking to play with the initial open-source R500 DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjQ1Ng

[TechMage89]

Further prolly. There's some dicey stuff with textures to be able to do compiz I think, which may cause some issues with the newer cards. I recall they had some difficulty getting compiz to work on r300s a while ago, but that was before docs were released.

I'll take a wild guess and say compiz may work in a month or two. I'm hoping for a fully featured OpenGl 2.1 driver by the end of the year!