r300g on Fedora

[bastiaan]

Hi,

I'd like to try the Gallium3D radeon drivers. It is my understanding that Fedora 13 still comes with classic Mesa drivers.

Are there any packages or repositories available for people to try Gallium3D on Fedora with Radeons?

If not, which packages will require manual compilation + installation? (My understanding is that the driver stack is spread across the kernel, x.org driver and Mesa (dri) driver.)

[Zhick]

The DRM and DDX-driver should be recent enough, you'll only need to build mesa with r300g. This should do the trick:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
cd mesa
./autogen.sh --enable-gallium-radeon --with-dri-drivers=r300
make -j2
cp lib/gallium/radeong_dri.so lib/gallium/r300_dri.so

And then to use gallium you just need to pretend LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/path-to-mesa-dir/lib/gallium to whatever you want to run.

[bastiaan]

Cool, thank you.

r300g makes a huge difference.