Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[oibaf]

Updates

It's been awhile since the last status update so here it is:

Mesa

• nouveau Gallium3d driver now installed in the default libgl1-mesa-dri package - no need to install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental anymore
• added VDPAU and XvMC support (pipe-video branch) for r300/r600/nouveau drivers in the libg3dvl-mesa package
• 2D/Xv/3D support for AMD Radeon HD 6950/6970 Cayman graphics cards
• Ivybridge support
• r300g bug fixes
• other crash fixes (especially llvm related)

EDIT: VDPAU and XvMC are also supported on r300 now! Unfortunately XvMC doesn't work (myssing symbol) and VDPAU is slower than Xv.

[tom.higgy]

Just want to say thanks for these packages! Makes it's much easier to get the latest (which also happen to fix a couple of bugs I had with default Ubuntu packages) drivers.

I'm using a Radeon 9550, which is RV350 based with a slower clock than other cards (I wanted something passively cooled and wasn't too fussed about 3D at the time), and thanks to VDPAU, I can now watch 720p video without too many problems!

Edit: OTOH that may be due to using mplayer instead of VLC...

[oibaf]

Just want to say thanks for these packages! Makes it's much easier to get the latest (which also happen to fix a couple of bugs I had with default Ubuntu packages) drivers.

Thanks

I'm using a Radeon 9550, which is RV350 based with a slower clock than other cards (I wanted something passively cooled and wasn't too fussed about 3D at the time), and thanks to VDPAU, I can now watch 720p video without too many problems!

Edit: OTOH that may be due to using mplayer instead of VLC...

Interesting, I tested mplayer also. Maybe VPDAU/XvMC is faster than Xv when using a "slow" CPU and a "fast" GPU. Anyway this is still initial r300 support so it may improve later on.

[whizse]

hi now with my hd4770 and your "oibaf" ppa heroes of newerth works perfect with the radeon driver

my last try with an hd5670 fail completely.

i think the r600g radeon driver is much better on hd4000 cards than hd5000 cards-.

It is, or at least was, working fine on my 5670. Do file bug reports.

[Darkfire Fox]

Package Tags

Forgive my stupidity, but what's the difference between the ~m/~n tags on the package names?

[runeks]

~maverick and ~natty

[Darkfire Fox]

D'oh!

~maverick and ~natty

Ah. Thanks.
*puts on dunce cap*

[oibaf]

Some updates

xf86-video-ati

• Llano support, r600 KMS Color Tiling enabled by default

mesa

• Llano support, r600g improvements, anisotropic filtering extension for softpipe
• Re-enabled shared glapi now that bug #36282 is fixed
• I am now compiling mesa with -Os rather than -O2. With some quick tests I didn't noticed any performance drops and it provides much smaller binaries (I may get back to -O2 if someone finds problems).
• also note that vdpau/xvmc are currently disabled since pipe-video branch conflicts with master branch (I'll re-enable once this is fixed)

libdrm

• updated to 2.4.26

[CaptSilver]

Weird Error with radeon driver.



Specs: Mobile Radeon HD 5870 on Linux Mint 11 with Linux 2.6.39 from ppa.

Anyone else getting this? This is a 32bit program using ia32libs.

[oibaf]

Specs: Mobile Radeon HD 5870 on Linux Mint 11 with Linux 2.6.39 from ppa.

Anyone else getting this? This is a 32bit program using ia32libs.

Maybe it's this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38270