ATI R600/700 OSS 3D Driver Reaches Gears Milestone

[pingufunkybeat]

So what is the proper upgrade path? Recompile xserver? Wait a few days?

[nanonyme]

So what is the proper upgrade path? Recompile xserver? Wait a few days?

Wait a few days. This requires changes in the X server so what will likely happen is some discussion in mailing list on what to do.

[pingufunkybeat]

Thanks.

But the bottom line is that using the bleeding edge drivers will require either reverting the relevant commit or a git xserver from now on?

[Fran]

Wait a few days. This requires changes in the X server so what will likely happen is some discussion in mailing list on what to do.

Hmmm? I'm using the latest git drm/mesa/driver (updated a few minutes ago) with xorg-server-1.6.3 and everything works fine

drm: 4144d692cec75576431f4ba7a9df040863955e09
mesa: 418cdc66ec10c1f3005320ab46404b907c30e37d
driver: 1c909ecd88e75c6e16af7aa068e32a7a60b0af37

$ grep AIGLX /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
(II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
(II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read
(II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control
(II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_texture_from_pixmap with driver support
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so

[forum1793]

...You should be able to use the drivers for direct rendering if you keep an old version around for indirect.

Huh?

Old version of what? LibGL.so? r600_dri.so? All of mesa?

How would the system know to use one version or the other? It probably wouldn't. Then would I remove and reload the version that I want every use?

[legume]

Hmmm? I'm using the latest git drm/mesa/driver (updated a few minutes ago) with xorg-server-1.6.3 and everything works fine

It won't show until you restart X.

[Fran]

It won't show until you restart X.

I've restarted not only X, but the computer. Twice

[forum1793]

Hmmm? I'm using the latest git drm/mesa/driver (updated a few minutes ago) with xorg-server-1.6.3 and everything works fine

Did you compile your own xserver?

I'm using latest from slackware which is also 1.6.3.

[Fran]

Did you compile your own xserver?

I use gentoo, so yeah :P. But it's the default gentoo xserver, no changes made for the latest git commits.

[legume]

I've restarted not only X, but the computer. Twice

Ahh, there is talk on IRC that the if your distro builds mesa/xorg with tls you will avoid it.