Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You might want to try upstream git radeonhd since 1.2.1 is pretty old. >> >> That said, if radeon works fine, why not just forget about radeonhd? :) >> > > I had been under the impression that radeon didn't support this card > at all, and radeonhd was The Way Of The Future, so I only installed > radeon as a desperate debugging tactic... I am probably just going to > stick with it now that I see it works. >
About one year ago, radeonhd was the way to go: radeon for <=r400 and radeonhd for >=r500. But the situation is (politically?) complex nowadays. These new r500/r600 boards can be driven by "atombios" (some sort of "high-level langage" from what I understand), or by low-level routines (as usual). The radeonhd driver only uses the latter, while radeon people would have preferred the former. So they wrote the former in the radeon driver to see if it was better/easier than the radeonhd code. So we now have 2 drivers with a different way to drive the same boards. Now, it's getting even more hard to understand since radeonhd recently got a atombios branch... Brice PS: Radeon people are reading this, so I have to say that I think/hope radeon will win in the end :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
