x-server will get some love on alpha

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

matt, Ivan,

terrific!  I'll try it when I get home next week.

jn


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From: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:54:14 -0400
Subject: Re: x-server will get some love on alpha

> Hi,
> 
> Yep, and Ivan's patch is now upsteam. Tobias keyworded 2.6.30-r3 on
> Gentoo which includes it, so please test.
> 
> I've been playing around testing Radeon KMS, and the results differ
> depending on whose tree I try. :\
> 
> Dave Airlie's drm-rawhide tree yields a nice fbcon, but X won't 
> start. Jerome Glisse's drm-next-radeon tree, which is what will 
> eventually be moved upstream fails to start. It actually hangs the 
> system. We couldn't isolate the problem, and there's too much churn 
> in that code now, so I'm waiting for it to quiet down before testing 
> again.
> 
> Once this stuff is worked out, your blue backgrounded SRM console 
> will flash and immediately go to a nice kernel modeset framebuffer console.
> X will start quickly without another flash, and you should have a 
> nice EXA accelerated, DRI2 desktop.
> 
> Of course, this requires a Radeon graphics card. If anyone else wants
> to test, please contact me on this list or via IRC (#alpha on
> Freenode).
> 
> To test, you'll need:
> - glisse's drm-next-radeon kernel tree:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/drm-next/log/?h=drm-next-radeon
> 
> If modesetting works here, then you'll need these bits to make X 
> work, built in this order - libdrm: modesetting-gem branch - mesa: 
> radeon-rewrite branch - Newish xserver, 1.6.1 should work - xf86-
> video-ati: glisse's radeon-gem-cs3 branch
> 
> PCI Radeons include:
> - R600: 2400 Pro
> - R500: X1300, X1550
> - R200: lots, fastest is Radeon 9100
> 
> Of these, the X1550 is probably the fastest (yes, not the 2400).
> 
> So, please test and let's hear the results.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Turner
> 
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