Open-Source 2D, 3D For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series GPUs

[bridgman]

I haven't seen a repo for the evergreen-accel branch of xf86-video-ati (which you need for Evergreen accel right now). Once the evergreen-accel branch gets merged into xf86-video-ati master you should be OK.

[Jecos]

Is evergreen support in xorg-edgers repository?

wanna try it. and I will grab latest 2.6.36.

[rohcQaH]

indeed, mipmaps work. Nice!

[monraaf]

Great, I see the broken mipmap thing is now fixed.

[etnlWings]

Ahh, sod that, then. Thanks for clearing that up.

[monraaf]

AFAIK it went straight into master the day the code was liberated by AMD. But you'll need a ddx from evergreen branch to allow for both 2D and 3D acceleration. And if you don't want any lockups and corruption you'll also need the just released kernel 2.6.36-rc5 at minimum.

[etnlWings]

Huh. Any idea how long ago that was? I CBFed figuring out of to build my own drivers so I've been taking advantage of the xorg-edgers repo, under the assumption that their Mesa 7.9-devel packages are up-to-date. I figured the new code hadn't been merged, since I'm still stuck with software rendering (and that insufferable aubergine stripe down the left side of my screen, that's been there since the initial modesetting support).

[darkbasic]

As far as I know the merge window is already closed and the 5xxx driver is already merged.

[etnlWings]

So is the classic driver looking to be merged into mainline Mesa before the 7.9 window closes?

[Wingfeather]

Ah, Christian (and Alex!), you're a lifesaver. The corruption was annoying in itself, but what I've not seen mentioned is that when corruption was occurring, crashes were proportionately more likely - usually bringing down X for me. Now, both corruption and crashes seem to be gone!

Excellent stuff, thanks a lot.