On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:38:27PM +0100, Pascal Stumpf wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:03:06AM -0500, Joe Snikeris wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Andy Bradford > > <amb-open...@bradfords.org> wrote: > > > > > > Is it going to be possible to get acceleration working with this? If so, > > > any pointers? > > > > +1 > > > > For the record: I've also tried the radeonhd driver instead of radeon. > 'glxinfo' reports a lot more GLX Visuals and GLXFBConfigs, OpenGL > version 2.1 instead of 1.5, but glxgears does not seem any faster > (around 290 FPS). Other applications using GL (supertuxkart ...) still > crash when trying to use hardware acceleration. > > For my part, I'd greatly appreciate *any* feedback from graphics people > on this. Is it being worked on? Which component is the culprit (kernel, > xorg driver, Mesa)? >
There is no DRM support for r600 and up in the kernel. Someone first has to finish his PhD first I believe... With the current kernel support you get _some_ benefits like xvideo, but that's about it for the moment.
