Reply With QuoteGreat work, devs!
I've got two little questions, maybe one of the devs can answer them:
1.) When will EXA become the default acceleration method?
2.) When will DRI be activated by default?
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RadeonHD Driver Picks Up Rotation Support
Phoronix: RadeonHD Driver Picks Up Rotation Support
Egbert Eich has announced this morning on the RadeonHD mailing list that rotation support has been added to this open-source ATI R500+ driver. This is a feature requested by many to be able to rotate the screen using RandR with the xf86-video-radeonhd driver, which is now possible...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Njg2Ng
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Great work, devs!
I've got two little questions, maybe one of the devs can answer them:
1.) When will EXA become the default acceleration method?
2.) When will DRI be activated by default?
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Huh? How comes they only now steal... er, port this over from radeon?
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Why do you think that?Originally Posted by Zhick
I think it is really great that radeonhd supports that now. We only need acceleration for R600/700 now.
(When I try to rotate with radeon it freezes my whole computer, and the devs seem to think this is okay. ( Link ))
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