Open-Source ATI Driver Achieves 3D Success

[agd5f]

I am currently using Fedora 7 with the proprietary ATI driver. I want to switch in the next month or so to F9. It would be very nice to have a step by step guide to get a decent free driver up and running.

I think Dave will be providing packages for F9 soon.

[midol]

me too

I am currently using Fedora 7 with the proprietary ATI driver. I want to switch in the next month or so to F9. It would be very nice to have a step by step guide to get a decent free driver up and running.

[bridgman]

I think the merge happened about 8 hours after RC1 was created, but if there is a subsequent RC for 7.1 the R5xx support should be picked up.

The changes are confined to the drivers/dri/r300 folder so no risk to the rest of Mesa.

[slacker]

Did this code make it into Mesa 7.1 RC1?

afaics no: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/

[elenius]

Dave just merged the r500-support branch into mesa git master, so it should be much easier to get up and running now.

Did this code make it into Mesa 7.1 RC1?

[slacker]

I tried that.. Same error as above:

Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

Is there a way to "make uninstall" ?

[d2kx]

slacker, you should use

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
or
./configure --prefix=/usr

in the future, so that it installs in the correct directory.

[slacker]

ok, so I manually installed mesa from sources.
It installed stuff in /usr/local/lib, so I had to manually copy it to /usr/lib/.

Now glxinfo gives:

$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 4.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/local/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 5, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 5, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 5
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x27 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2b 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2e 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2f 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x32 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x6a 32 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

[agd5f]

I did install mesa from sources, git master...
But not manually, with a gentoo ebuild: maybe there's something wrong with it. I will try to get more info.
thanks

When you build mesa, you want the dri build target. I'm not sure how gentoo does it.

[slacker]

I did install mesa from sources, git master...
But not manually, with a gentoo ebuild: maybe there's something wrong with it. I will try to get more info.
thanks