Tools for Open Source Driver Development

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I've dealt with Peter once when trying to fix a touch screen driver. he's awesome, expect more big things from this guy

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Unless radeon and radeonhd are somehow radically different in their approach to the problem there doesn't seem to be much point in developing both....

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Hi
This is a question for all the driver developers here, What tools do you use for driver development aside from a video card and the amd/ati...

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This was on Ubuntu 8.10 beta
xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd ...

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I didn't have any luck getting 3D working properly with RadeonHD but I'm using radeon just fine with an RS690 getting about 800FPS on glxgears...

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Thanks for that I'll try and post some useful information for them.

As for DRI all I get when I try to use the DRI option is a warning...

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Correct, So my next question is to whom do I direct a query regarding the colour space problem?

for reference here is the log using XAA acceleration,...

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This is using radeonhd with the xorg.conf options specified in the installing open-source drivers thread in this forum. Uncommenting the DRI option gives...

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I can but I'm away at a Tangi for the next few days will post it when I'm back in front of that machine....

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Is the r300 3D driver common to both radeon and radeonhd? The radeonhd works but with terrible performance, so would that point to it being something...

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Connection is via LVDS, I can try VGA but will have to wait til after the weekend.
The 'application' is the python libavg framework. Renders everything...

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Hi All,
Finally I have my 690G based computers up and running with open source drivers and everything is running well. Except video playback from...

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Solved with the following
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libstdc++.so

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I'm not suggesting that advocating of open source software isn't constructive, however might I humbly suggest you attempt to be a little less abrasive...

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So why are you making such a fuss about drivers if you only care about the end result. You should try diverting some of the energy you're putting into...