[Cooker] Mesa 7.1?

Hello

Is there any schedule to update Mesa? I think it's necessary to enable 3D if
using the Xorg ati driver...

Currently, the ATI users of cooker having RV500 or later chip have no hardware
acceleration, because fglrx still don't support kernel 2.6.26. But some chips
are supported by the open ati driver, although Mesa 7.1 is needed to enable
3D acceleration.

Regards

[Charles A Edwards]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:44:37 +0200
Toni Diaz wrote:



> Is there any schedule to update Mesa? I think it's necessary to
> enable 3D if using the Xorg ati driver...
>
> Currently, the ATI users of cooker having RV500 or later chip have no
> hardware acceleration, because fglrx still don't support kernel
> 2.6.26. But some chips are supported by the open ati driver, although
> Mesa 7.1 is needed to enable 3D acceleration.


Annsi uploaded a patched fglrx on 10 Jul 2008 which Does build with the
26 kernels.

[charles@BlackKnight ~]$ uname -r
2.6.26-server-1mnb
[charles@BlackKnight ~]$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
<snip>  
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 3870
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release

[charles@BlackKnight ~]$ rpm -q dkms-fglrx
dkms-fglrx-8.501-3mdv2008.1


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El Sunday 20 July 2008 13:38:10 Charles A Edwards escribió:
> Annsi uploaded a patched fglrx on 10 Jul 2008 which Does build with the
> 26 kernels.

Thanks, Charles.

I've installed the packages, and them work fine.
 
Nevertheless, I think that is preferable  a free solution, if exists, and we
should test it.

Regards

[Anssi Hannula-3]

Charles A Edwards wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:44:37 +0200
> Toni Diaz wrote:
>
>
>
>> Is there any schedule to update Mesa? I think it's necessary to
>> enable 3D if using the Xorg ati driver...
>>
>> Currently, the ATI users of cooker having RV500 or later chip have no
>> hardware acceleration, because fglrx still don't support kernel
>> 2.6.26. But some chips are supported by the open ati driver, although
>> Mesa 7.1 is needed to enable 3D acceleration.
>
>
> Annsi uploaded a patched fglrx on 10 Jul 2008 which Does build with the
> 26 kernels.

It was Olivier, thank him :)

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[Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade]

Toni Diaz wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is there any schedule to update Mesa? I think it's necessary to enable 3D if
> using the Xorg ati driver...

  There isn't yet an official Mesa 7.1. And I don't think it will be
compatible
with the Mesa in cooker, so, updating mesa will also require updating X
Server,
and since there is no Mesa 7.1 neither X Server 1.5 yet probably this
will not
be available too soon for cooker.
  In the meantime, you can test the xorg-snapshot package, it is in
contrib/testing.

> Currently, the ATI users of cooker having RV500 or later chip have no hardware
> acceleration, because fglrx still don't support kernel 2.6.26. But some chips
> are supported by the open ati driver, although Mesa 7.1 is needed to enable
> 3D acceleration.
>
> Regards

Paulo

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:52:04 -0300
Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa@...> wrote:

> Toni Diaz wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Is there any schedule to update Mesa? I think it's necessary to
> > enable 3D if using the Xorg ati driver...
>
>   There isn't yet an official Mesa 7.1. And I don't think it will be
> compatible
> with the Mesa in cooker, so, updating mesa will also require updating
> X Server,
> and since there is no Mesa 7.1 neither X Server 1.5 yet probably this
> will not
> be available too soon for cooker.

I see from a recent Phoronix article that we won't have 3D support for
the latest Intel chipsets without the new Mesa :(
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[Fabrice FACORAT]

2008/8/1 Adam Williamson <awilliamson@...>:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:52:04 -0300
> Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa@...> wrote:
>
>> Toni Diaz wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > Is there any schedule to update Mesa? I think it's necessary to
>> > enable 3D if using the Xorg ati driver...
>>
>>   There isn't yet an official Mesa 7.1. And I don't think it will be
>> compatible
>> with the Mesa in cooker, so, updating mesa will also require updating
>> X Server,
>> and since there is no Mesa 7.1 neither X Server 1.5 yet probably this
>> will not
>> be available too soon for cooker.
>
> I see from a recent Phoronix article that we won't have 3D support for
> the latest Intel chipsets without the new Mesa :(

more things to break ?
It may be dangerous to go for a snapshot of Mesa+Xorg, if we don't
have a stable release of theses ones in time for 2009.0 release ...
At least people can test with the xorg-snapshot if nothing is wrong,
the same for a possible mesa-snapshot. A task-x11-snapshot could be
created to ease the ability to install it to do some tests.



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[Mika Laitio]

>>> compatible
>>> with the Mesa in cooker, so, updating mesa will also require updating
>>> X Server,
>>> and since there is no Mesa 7.1 neither X Server 1.5 yet probably this
>>> will not
>>> be available too soon for cooker.
>>
>> I see from a recent Phoronix article that we won't have 3D support for
>> the latest Intel chipsets without the new Mesa :(
>
> more things to break ?
> It may be dangerous to go for a snapshot of Mesa+Xorg, if we don't
> have a stable release of theses ones in time for 2009.0 release ...
> At least people can test with the xorg-snapshot if nothing is wrong,
> the same for a possible mesa-snapshot. A task-x11-snapshot could be
> created to ease the ability to install it to do some tests.

And what about the radeonhd drivers for ATI?
I think radeonhd repository has now support for the AMD 780G chipset,
but the latest official 1.2.1 release does not include it.

Mika

[Frederik Himpe]

On vr, 2008-08-01 at 15:39 +0300, Mika Laitio wrote:

> >>> compatible
> >>> with the Mesa in cooker, so, updating mesa will also require updating
> >>> X Server,
> >>> and since there is no Mesa 7.1 neither X Server 1.5 yet probably this
> >>> will not
> >>> be available too soon for cooker.
> >>
> >> I see from a recent Phoronix article that we won't have 3D support for
> >> the latest Intel chipsets without the new Mesa :(
> >
> > more things to break ?
> > It may be dangerous to go for a snapshot of Mesa+Xorg, if we don't
> > have a stable release of theses ones in time for 2009.0 release ...
> > At least people can test with the xorg-snapshot if nothing is wrong,
> > the same for a possible mesa-snapshot. A task-x11-snapshot could be
> > created to ease the ability to install it to do some tests.
>
> And what about the radeonhd drivers for ATI?
> I think radeonhd repository has now support for the AMD 780G chipset,
> but the latest official 1.2.1 release does not include it.

Cooker is already using a radeonhd snapshot from 20080729.


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[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:39:52 +0300 (EEST)
Mika Laitio <lamikr@...> wrote:

> And what about the radeonhd drivers for ATI?
> I think radeonhd repository has now support for the AMD 780G chipset,
> but the latest official 1.2.1 release does not include it.

I actually update radeonhd regularly with git snapshots, but currently
it doesn't build due to an upstream bug that keeps coming back (this is
the third time). I'm waiting for upstream to fix that before I can bump
it to the current code.
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adamw