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  • R600g finally works well on my RV670. Kwin's 4.5.2 desktop effects now work (but blur does not work with both R600c and R600g) and I have similar performances in openarena (93 fps for R600c and 90 fps for R600g, Very High Quality at 2560x1600)
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    AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
    Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)

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    • Originally posted by fiete View Post
      I just tried r600c and r600g with Ubuntu Maverick and xorg-edgers packages. I'm amazed to see that compiz and openarena actually works.

      However, in games like openarena I was not able to move the mouse when running r600g or r600c. Any idea what I can do about it? Or is this in no way driver related?
      How exactly does one go about loading and installing (just) the r600c and r600g drivers from xorg-edgers in Maverick?

      I am hesitant to add the entire ppa to my repository list in case it over-writes everything in the Xorg stack and hoses my graphics install.

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      • 1 - add xorg-edgers ppa
        2 - delete /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so
        3 - go to /usr/lib/dri/galium, create link to r600_dri.so and copy it to /usr/lib/dri/
        4 - restart

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        • Originally posted by icek View Post
          1 - add xorg-edgers ppa
          2 - delete /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so
          3 - go to /usr/lib/dri/galium, create link to r600_dri.so and copy it to /usr/lib/dri/
          4 - restart
          I added the xorg-edgers ppa per #1. I presumed that apt-get update && apt-get upgrade was required, so I did that. It replaced just about every part of Xorg.

          rather than do #2, I renamed the file to r600c_dri.so

          There is no directory /usr/lib/dri/galium so I did not complete any part of step #3 or #4.

          I re-named the file r600c_dri.so back to r600_dri.so

          Kwin compositing still does not work in maverick.

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          • I forgot, you have to install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental

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            • Originally posted by icek View Post
              I forgot, you have to install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental
              Thankyou for your help. glxinfo now gives me this:

              Code:
              OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
              OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on RV710
              OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10-devel
              OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
              I still cannot get Kwin compositing to work under KDE 4.5.1 (Kubuntu 10.10). I presume now that I will need another ppa for KDE 4.5.2 or something?

              I will go to the "KDE doesn't work thread and check there.

              But thanks for your help anyway. Gallium is going to be very interesting.

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              • Originally posted by hal2k1 View Post
                Thankyou for your help. glxinfo now gives me this:

                Code:
                OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
                OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on RV710
                OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10-devel
                OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
                I still cannot get Kwin compositing to work under KDE 4.5.1 (Kubuntu 10.10). I presume now that I will need another ppa for KDE 4.5.2 or something?

                I will go to the "KDE doesn't work thread and check there.

                But thanks for your help anyway. Gallium is going to be very interesting.
                PS: I tried KDE 4.5.2 as described here:


                with this driver:
                Code:
                $ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
                OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
                OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on RV710
                OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10-devel
                OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
                OpenGL extensions:
                Still no joy. Kwin crashes (and then I presume re-starts) when you try to enable compositing, and Kwin reports that it cannot run any of the compositing effects.

                I am more than a bit frustrated with Kwin right now. It used to work fine.

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                • Does it work with r600c?

                  A few days ago, when I last tested r600g, it could not run KWin on my system. r600c is perfect.

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                  • You could try a drm next kernel. For ubuntu you can download compiled packages from:

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                    • Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                      Does it work with r600c?

                      A few days ago, when I last tested r600g, it could not run KWin on my system. r600c is perfect.
                      No, compositing does not work on my Kubuntu 10.10/KDE 4.5.2/Kwin system with either r600c or r600g.

                      Something seriously borked within Kwin I would think.

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