Hey guys, Michael's dri-trunk stuff works. Splendid... ! This is actually the first time GTKRadiant and Quake3 works at the same time! I am extremely excited and thankful to you. (Especially Michael? :)) And thanks for the explanatin, Mike, it helped a lot to understand what was going on. :)
I'd already tried to use the gatos binaries in my Debian context several times before, but I could never get both Quake3 and GTKRadiant to run without having to switch back and forth between the gatos and debian ati drivers (maybe I hadn't tried disabling DRI, but that is now all history for me). I'm looking forward to a clean XFre86 4.3.0 .deb set (when does the 6 months devcycle end? :)) Keep up the good work! and take care... I'm heading back now enjoying Quake3 mapping :) Cheers, Csan Janos Holanyi Association of Hungarian Linux Users Email: csaniATlme.linux.hu Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 07:20, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > > > >I would need 2d acceleration for my ATI Radeon 7200 (VIVO 64MB DDR) very > bad. > > >I'd like to dive myself into Quake 3 mapping with GTKRadiant map editor, > but I > > >can't since the ati driver shipped with the current xserver, does not > contains > > >any 2d acceleration... > > > > > >Are there any plans for integrating gatos 2d aacceleration into the > xfree6 > > >project's next debian release. > > > > Radeon 2D acceleration is implemented in two different ways. The > > first method, MMIO, is used when DRI is disabled. The second > > way, uses the Radeon CP engine, and is only used when DRI is > > enabled. > > > > The problem though, is that the CP engine 2D code was not as > > fully implemented as the MMIO code was, so earlier XFree86 > > releases will show a slowdown in 2D acceleration when DRI is > > enabled. XFree86 4.2.0 has the situation improved slightly, but > > it still isn't up to par with the MMIO code. Michel Daenzer has > > implemented a bit more of the CP 2D code in DRI-CVS, which brings > > the CP 2D code much closer to the level of the MMIO codepath. > > In fact, on the reinit-0-0-1-branch in DRI CVS, I've brought it up to > par (in terms of accelerated operations - the CP is faster of course :). > I hope this will get into 4.3.0. > > > > I've got a patch for 4.2.0 to add the latest code, however it was > > reported as not fully working so I disabled it until I have time > > to debug/troubleshoot. > > Can you be a bit more specific than 'not fully working'? > > > If anyone wants a copy of the patch, let me know and I'll put it up on > FTP. > > I'd be interested to see the patch if there are problems with it. > > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer > XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
