Attention Fedora Core 3 Radeon users

[Robert]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Does DRI actually work on Radeon for _anyone_ out there without 
> crashing either immediately, or within some timeframe?
> 
> There are oodles of DRI related radeon bugs, and I'm just trying 
> to get an idea if it actually works for anyone at all, so we can 
> decide the best approach to resolving the issues reported so far.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 

There have been a few times that I've had to quit back to runlevel 3 to 
clear some goofy hung-up situation. I can't remember that NOT being 
because of the sound stuff getting tangled up.
It generally works swell. I sometimes watch a movie on DVD using xine, 
switching desktops to read email during boring parts of the movie.



[root at mavis ~]# grep -A 10 -B 10 dri /etc/X11/xorg.conf
EndSection

Section "Module"
         Load  "dbe"
         Load  "extmod"
         Load  "fbdevhw"
         Load  "glx"
         Load  "record"
         Load  "freetype"
         Load  "type1"
         Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#       Option  "Xleds"         "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#       Option  "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
[root at mavis ~]#

[root at mavis ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) 
(rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce 
MultiMedia audio[Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 
Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 
1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:06.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
01:07.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940/2940W / AIC-7871
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] 
(rev 05)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] 
(rev 05)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If 
[Radeon9000] (rev 01)
03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Radeon 
9000] (Secondary) (rev 01)
[root at mavis ~]#
[root at mavis ~]# rpm -qa | grep xorg
xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-syriac-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-truetype-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12
[root at mavis ~]# rpm -qa | grep xorg
xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-syriac-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-truetype-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-cyrillic-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-6.8.1-12
xorg-x11-twm-6.8.1-12
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi-6.8.1-1
[root at mavis ~]#

[rj at mavis ~]$ glxgears
5164 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1032.800 FPS
6095 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1219.000 FPS
6097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1219.400 FPS
6067 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1213.400 FPS
[rj at mavis ~]$


You can have dinner tonight, confident that despite a few bugs, y'all 
did a bunchastuff right!