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Re: Trouble with DRI (WAS: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available)



 --- csj <csj@zapo.net> escribió: 
> > I added this line to sources.list:
> > 
> > deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./
> 
> I used to download my source from that site, when
> Daniel-san. first took it upon himself to create XFree86 4.3 for
> the terminally impatient.  Now my 4.3 packages come from:
> 
> http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/
> 
> I don't know how unofficial that is.  But there are near nightly
> builds of the debian diff's to the X sources.  So somebody must
> be maintaining them.  To be sure, I take the trouble of compiling
> from the source.
> 

That is what I originally did.  I downloaded the trunk sources and the
patches up until the day I downloaded (22 July), and used dpkg-buildpackage
to build all the .deb's.

> > Which got me the same exact XFree86 that Knoppix uses (I had
> > built my own packages from the sources and patches on the
> > X-Strike Force page) back on July 22.  I also downloaded the
> > latest Radeon tarball from dri.sourceforge.net.  Nothing I did
> > got DRI working with the open source drivers.  I also tried the
> > xlibmesa4-drm-source package, but that did not help either.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Did you try "lsmod" on both machines?  Did you make sure the
> binary stuff was totally purged from your system?  I ran into
> some problem when I replaced my NVidia with the Radeon.  The
> binary drivers at that time wouldn't surrender without a fight
> (something to do with "diversions" IRC).
> 

Yes.  I checked and restored all the files touched by the ATi package. I used
'dpkg -L fglrx-glc22' to find all the files installed by the package and
mancually checked them to be sure that they were the original versions
installed
by XFree86.  I also checked all the symlinks to make sure that they pointed
to the libs provided by XFree86.

> Also I get my opensource radeon DRI drivers from a Debian
> maintainer's unofficial "site":
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/
> http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/
> 
> The first URL is for xfree86 4.2, the other for xfree86 4.3.  I
> had to eliminate the kernel options that would compile the
> kernel's native radeon drivers (which would would be replaced by
> dri-trunk's own kernel modules).
> 

OK.  I get them from the xlibmesa4-drm-src package and also tried the latest
snapshots from the DRI homepage.

> To be sure I'm running Daenzer's unofficial debs on top of the
> official sid X 4.2.  The debs allow me to play Chromium and
> GLTron with decent explosions.  Since the Radeon VE doesn't have
> TCL (whatever that means) I get worse fps (100 fps) when running
> glxgears under DRI than when running it under plain X (200 fps).
> I think Chromium is a better test for 3D acceleration because it
> allows you to waste your time in a more entertaining manner.
> 

If I can ever get them working I will look at that as way to compare them.
Until then, I would like to at least get the open source drivers working,
so that I can compare.

-Roberto

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