Radeon Gallium on ubuntu

[DanL]

I'm currently toying with getting a PPA that has gallium enabled to make it easy for people to test. In theory, all I should need to do is depend on the xorg-edgers PPA, copy the version of mesa from there, and add the --enable-gallium-radeon flag to my PPA's version of mesa, no?

Well, I got it to build, and I'm about to test it (although I don't have an r300-r500 card at the moment). If anyone's interested, I have Lucid version right now: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/mediahacks

[Beiruty]

I have an ATI 1800XL (R520), I will install your PPA at my home computer and try it. I hope I do not screw up something. How do I get upates for the latest Gallium3D mesa? I have the Xorg Edgers crak ppa installed. Do you I get auto update?

[Beiruty]

How to install it? I could not download said package, and synaptic could not find your pack after I did add your source ppa

[DanL]

How to install it? I could not download said package, and synaptic could not find your pack after I did add your source ppa

I think the edgers PPA version deprecated mine. You could probably select it in Synapitc under the versions tab. Unfortunately, I would advise you to build from source if you want to try gallium because I'm going to be away from the computer world for a while because of medical issues.

[Dragonix]

Hi,
I've a 9600XT (RV350), latest mesa git, latest libdrm (git), gentoo-sources-2.6.33, xorg-server 1.7.6

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on RV350
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.9-devel

>> nexuiz is sloooooooooow (can't really move the mouse..), and I think "OpenGL version string:" should be 2.0 or something like that.. any ideas?

Thx!

[HokTar]

Hi,
and I think "OpenGL version string:" should be 2.0 or something like that.. any ideas?

Gallium reports OpenGL 2.0 only on r500 cards as far as I know. I think Marek said it somewhere but I'm too lazy to look it up.

[Dragonix]

Gallium reports OpenGL 2.0 only on r500 cards as far as I know. I think Marek said it somewhere but I'm too lazy to look it up.

ah ok, thanks, that explains the opengl-1.5... though.. shouldn't i be able to play nexuiz? I mean, I can start nexuiz, but than everything is to slow (as already told, i can't move the mouse/exit nexuiz/..).

[HokTar]

ah ok, thanks, that explains the opengl-1.5... though.. shouldn't i be able to play nexuiz? I mean, I can start nexuiz, but than everything is to slow (as already told, i can't move the mouse/exit nexuiz/..).

Dunno about nexuiz. However, openarena is reported to be working nicely, so you should try that one just to check if your setup is working correctly. If it does then you might try to report the problem with nexuiz on dri-devel.

[bridgman]

IIRC there are a couple of effects which need to be turned off for Nexuiz to run fast on <GL 2.0 - bloom was one, forget the other.

[Melcar]

Motion Blur as well I think.