Ok ppl, i'm posting this in the hope that bridgman, agd5f, arlied, glisse and others (the radeon dev wizards) will read it and help me(us) out.
First, i followed glisse instructions in his blog (http://jglisse.livejournal.com/1822.html) and compiled kernel 2.6.29 with ttm/kms support for radeon from git, mesa with radeon-rewrite from git, drm/ddx with radeon-rewrite from git.
After a little of head banging on the desk, everything was working.
KMS with DRI2 works very well and fast on my 200m. Impressive work indeed.
Now.. for the bugs.
Resume/suspend is broken, because of this bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16537) that resurfaced from the depths of hell :P my desktop gets completely garbled when awakes from sleep (see video attached to bug). This was already a problem with dri1 and stock radeon driver but i got around it using vbetool, and never again remembered of it. well, it showed his ugly head and bitted me :P since vbetool can't work with kms, all rs482 users won't be able to use suspend to sleep till this nasty registers get slapped into obedience.
In the dri2 department, glisse told me i would need a newer xorg (from master) in order to make kde4 work with dri2 in radeon. (doing the compilation as we speak, but xorg is a very hard beast to master), so no kde4 composite (only compiz) till i/we can have a newer xorg server.
Finally the old rgba color bug is back also!!! (which is similar to this one from intel gang https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19970) although it's not a show stopper, it needs to be fixed, since it screws every bit of transparency in both compiz and kde4 the rgba values get/send wrong values and we have wrong colors/transparency with any kind of true transparency.
well, this are my impressions and bug reports. I can say i'm very impressed and using it as my default settings (it's hard to go back now that i tasted the sweet dri2 life
So, could you devs comment on the bugs and maybe point out to patches (never mind if they are experimental, i'll gladly test them), and all 200m users out there, compile or use fedora 11 (a live cd will suffice) and test your cards
UPDATE 1: Tested a few apps today, google earth works like a charm, a little slow but with this crappy card, even in windows it's slow. world of goo also works very well i forgot to report i recompiled qt 4.5.1 with raster as default, and not only everything works but its much more snappy. Finally i forgot to report that xv is broken (known issue, glisse told me he's aware of that but that its low in his priority list, i hope some other dev fixes it), meanwhile you guys can use gl2 output (works like a charm) for your video pleasures.
that is all!
First, i followed glisse instructions in his blog (http://jglisse.livejournal.com/1822.html) and compiled kernel 2.6.29 with ttm/kms support for radeon from git, mesa with radeon-rewrite from git, drm/ddx with radeon-rewrite from git.
After a little of head banging on the desk, everything was working.
KMS with DRI2 works very well and fast on my 200m. Impressive work indeed.
Now.. for the bugs.
Resume/suspend is broken, because of this bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16537) that resurfaced from the depths of hell :P my desktop gets completely garbled when awakes from sleep (see video attached to bug). This was already a problem with dri1 and stock radeon driver but i got around it using vbetool, and never again remembered of it. well, it showed his ugly head and bitted me :P since vbetool can't work with kms, all rs482 users won't be able to use suspend to sleep till this nasty registers get slapped into obedience.
In the dri2 department, glisse told me i would need a newer xorg (from master) in order to make kde4 work with dri2 in radeon. (doing the compilation as we speak, but xorg is a very hard beast to master), so no kde4 composite (only compiz) till i/we can have a newer xorg server.
Finally the old rgba color bug is back also!!! (which is similar to this one from intel gang https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19970) although it's not a show stopper, it needs to be fixed, since it screws every bit of transparency in both compiz and kde4 the rgba values get/send wrong values and we have wrong colors/transparency with any kind of true transparency.
well, this are my impressions and bug reports. I can say i'm very impressed and using it as my default settings (it's hard to go back now that i tasted the sweet dri2 life
So, could you devs comment on the bugs and maybe point out to patches (never mind if they are experimental, i'll gladly test them), and all 200m users out there, compile or use fedora 11 (a live cd will suffice) and test your cards
UPDATE 1: Tested a few apps today, google earth works like a charm, a little slow but with this crappy card, even in windows it's slow. world of goo also works very well i forgot to report i recompiled qt 4.5.1 with raster as default, and not only everything works but its much more snappy. Finally i forgot to report that xv is broken (known issue, glisse told me he's aware of that but that its low in his priority list, i hope some other dev fixes it), meanwhile you guys can use gl2 output (works like a charm) for your video pleasures.
that is all!
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