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SubjectRe: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Martin Drab wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:41:27 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>
> To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?
>
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Gerhard Mack wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if there are working open source DRM drivers that work
> > on recent 2.6.x kernels for the ATI X300? I've tried dri.sourceforge.net
> > and r300 but neither seems to even bother compiling. I've spent several
> > hours on google without luck.
> >
> > Gerhard
>
> Have you seen this
>
> http://r300.sourceforge.net/
>
> However, I'm not sure how much useable it is allready. Perhaps not much.
> Otherwise you would probably either have to stick with the ATI's binary
> drivers or open source unaccelerated drivers. I'm not aware of anything
> else being available for recent ATI chips.

Although those drivers support the card, they do not compile on recent
kernels. I managed to hack it to compile and then ended up with X being
unable to access the /dev/dri/card* devices.

Gerhard

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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