Xorg server and ATI Radeon IGP 320m

[frankjr]

As you may know, XFree86 hasn't supported the igp chips except for a patch that is available at bugs.xfree86.org. I recently tried the patch for xfree86 4.4.0 on the Xorg server. The patch applied cleanly, but unfortunately I still have problems getting OpenGL working. There are two kernel drivers that I've tried: the one in kernel 2.6.5-love4 (or 3, can't remember off the top of my head), and the one that is available in the /usr/src/xorg-x11-6.7.0/linux/drm/kernel directory (you do a make -f Makefile.linux radeon.o to crank out the radeon.ko kernel module). The first kernel module (the one supplied by the kernel and its patches) cause anything more complex than the programs in the xscreensaver package (like descent, quake3, etc.) to crash with a DrmBlahBlah: -22 error (I'll have to look for it later, I'm not at the laptop right now). The second kernel module (the one in the xorg directory) loads up, but then X ends up having unaccelerated opengl. Hopefully someone will release some working patches for the Radeon IGP chips for the Xorg server, but in the meantime has anyone got these xfree86 patches working on Xorg?

[yardbird]

You may want to install DRI CVS:

http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building

The kernel module is not enough alone, you also need support for acceleration on the X server's side, wich at the moment neither Xorg nor XFree have. With DRI CVS you should be able to get it working, I have my IGP340M 3D acceleration running pretty well.

Also take a look at the IGP thread somewhere around here.

[pens]

Did you get DRI working with xorg/dri cvs? If so, could you please give some sort of directions as to how you did it?

[Enderson]

I tryied the xfree patches on xorg without success. I know that the last xfree on
portage works with the CVS DRI. But how do I know when this will get released, instead of just CVS?
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