Re: Radeon 8500 XFree 4.3.0 dri

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:57:17 +0200
"Vicchius" <vicchius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vicchius" <vicchius@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Alex Deucher" <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dri-users] Radeon 8500 XFree 4.3.0 dri
> 
> 
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alex Deucher" <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Vicchius" <vicchius@xxxxxxxxx>; <dri-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Dri-users] Radeon 8500 XFree 4.3.0 dri
> >
> >
> > > radeon (r100) and r200 have very different 3D engines.  you must have
> > > somehow not compiled or not installed the r200 drm.  once you
> > > find/build that it should work.
> >
> > hmm I'm quite sure to have followed the same steps I had followed the
> first
> > time I built XFree4.3, but maybe I'm wrong :P
> > Just in case, this is the host.def file that I used this time to build
> > XFree86 (I have put a blank line before the section with Dri's #define)
> >
> > #define
> > DefaultGcc2i386Opt -s -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i686 -mcpu=i686
> > #define GccWarningOptions -w -pipe
> > #define TermcapLibrary -lncurses
> > #define HasZlib YES
> > #define HasNCurses YES
> > #define HasMTRRSupport YES
> > #define HasMMXSupport YES
> > #define HasKatmaiSupport YES
> > #define Has3DNowSupport YES
> > #define XInputDrivers mouse void
> > #define XprtServer YES
> > #define XnestServer YES
> > #define XAppLoadDir EtcX11Directory/app-defaults
> > #define VarLibDir /var/lib
> > #define XFree86Devel NO
> > #define FSUseSyslog YES
> > #define ThreadedX YES
> > #define HasPam NO
> > #define SystemManDirectory /usr/share/man
> > #define ForceNormalLib YES
> > #define BuildSpecsDocs NO
> >
> > #define XF86CardDrivers glint tga vmware chips apm GlideDriver fbdev i128
> > ati AgpGartDrivers DevelDrivers ark cyrix siliconmotion vesa vga \
> > XF86OSCardDrivers XF86ExtraCardDrivers

#define XF86CardDrivers ati

should be all you need here.

> > #define BuildXF86DRI YES
> > #define BuildXF86DRM YES
> > #define DriDrivers gamma r128 radeon

Make this

#define DriDrivers r200

Everything else (XFree86 DDX driver and kernel drm driver) is the same
for r100 and r200 based cards. But you need the r200 dri driver. OTOH
you don't need the gamma, r128 and radeon dri drivers.

> >
> > #define BuildFontServer YES
> > #define SharedLibFont YES
> > #define CompressAllFonts YES
> > #define GzipFontCompression YES
> > #define InstallXinitConfig YES
> > #define InstallXdmConfig YES
> > #define InstallFSConfig YES
> > #define HasLibpng YES
> > #define DefaultFontPath \
> >
> $(FONTDIR)/misc/,$(FONTDIR)/75dpi/,$(FONTDIR)/100dpi/,$(FONTDIR)/Type1,$(FON
> > TDIR)/local,$(FONTDIR)/TrueType,$(FONTDIR)/CID,$(FONTDIR)/Speedo
> > #define MesaUseKatmai YES
> > #define MesaUse3Dnow YES
> >
> > As you can see, I have built the gamma, r128 and radeon drivers, which,
> > according to the howto I have read (sorry, do not remember where I found
> > this "howto" which I think it was an unofficial one, but again it worked
> > last time...), are the only ones needed for users with an ati card. Maybe
> it
> > should be added a "r200" to that line?
> > Thanks
> >
> > Vicchius

I hope this helps,
  Felix

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