Radeon Test Day: Wednesday April 1st (yes, really)

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:41 +0200, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:19 +0200, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Radeon_2009-04-01
> >>
> >> Shouldn't you restrict this test to older Radeon cards (which should
> >> be using the new radeon-rewrite code) ? R600+ cards do not get KMS or
> >> any 3D support.
> >
> > We want testing on all hardware, but I'm updating the page at present to
> > note things which are known not to work with R600+. Are you sure KMS
> > doesn't work, though? http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature has it marked
> > as 'WIP' for r600 and r700, just the same as r100->r500...
> 
> R600+ does not have it by default (you have to use radeon.modeset=1),
> and if I enable it I get no video out (tested on a RV730 and a RV770
> card) so it soes not look like it's included at the moment. It's
> likely a WIP bundled with the 3D support, but it's not testable at the
> moment.

OK, thanks - I'll adjust the instructions and check with Dave on whether
it's ever expected to work.
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