radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???
 

Hi,

Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration? I have no performance
what so ever with the radeonhd driver with my RV670 AGP Radeon HD 3850
card.

Looking into the XOrg.0.log I see:

(WW) RADEONHD(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEONHD(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(II) RADEONHD(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel
module

And further in the file:

(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable


But the agpart is loaded:

panoramix:/home/jkr# lsmod | grep agp
amd64_agp 6814 0
agpgart 24733 3 ttm,drm,amd64_agp

Does anyone has any idea of how to get (hardware) acceleration working?

TIA


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radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???
 

Dne, 30. 01. 2010 16:32:02 je Joost Kraaijeveld napisal(a):

Hi,

Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration?


That's a question I'm very much interested in too. I've always been
under the impression that the radeon and radeonhd drivers only support
basic 2D acceleration, and only for some cards. IIRC, 3D acceleration
is still a trade secret for AMD. So the messy, buggy, tainted fglrx
driver seems to still be the only solution for hard-core gaming ...


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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 16:00, Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> Dne, 30. 01. 2010 16:32:02 je Joost Kraaijeveld napisal(a):
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration?
>
> That's a question I'm very much interested in too. I've always been under
> the impression that the radeon and radeonhd drivers only support basic 2D
> acceleration, and only for some cards. IIRC, 3D acceleration is still a
> trade secret for AMD.

AMD has published all 2d and 3d info for r100 through r700 (r800/5xxx is
in the pipeline):
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/

Here are the status pages for the two drivers:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeon
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

DRI2/KMS is theoretically usable with 2.6.32, Mesa 7.7, XServer 1.7 and
the latest Radeon (not HD) drivers (possibly with some patches), but
anything older is a no go.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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Dne, 31. 01. 2010 03:52:01 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a):
AMD has published all 2d and 3d info for r100 through r700 (r800/5xxx
is

in the pipeline):
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/


I stand corrected. That's like music to my ears.

DRI2/KMS is theoretically usable with 2.6.32, Mesa 7.7, XServer 1.7
and

the latest Radeon (not HD) drivers (possibly with some patches), but
anything older is a no go.


Am I to understand that AMD released specs for their cutting-edge cards
only, or just that the radeon and radeonhd developers don't have time,
resources or interest in supporting older, obsolete equipment?


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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:20, Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> Dne, 31. 01. 2010 03:52:01 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a):
>>
>> AMD has published all 2d and 3d info for r100 through r700 (r800/5xxx is
>> in the pipeline):
>> http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
>
> I stand corrected. That's like music to my ears.
>
>> DRI2/KMS is theoretically usable with 2.6.32, Mesa 7.7, XServer 1.7 and
>> the latest Radeon (not HD) drivers (possibly with some patches), but
>> anything older is a no go.

I should have said this bit applies to the Radeon HD 3850 and other recent
cards. 3d support for older cards goes much further back.

> Am I to understand that AMD released specs for their cutting-edge cards
> only, or just that the radeon and radeonhd developers don't have time,
> resources or interest in supporting older, obsolete equipment?

No, Radeon has for some time fully supported 2d and 3d for r100 to r500; that
is Radeon 7000 through 9000 series and x300 through x1950. Radeon HD 2xxx
through Radeon HD 4xxx (r600 - r700) have more limited support at this time.
All the specs for these have been released, but even with specs it takes time
to make the drivers.

For really old cards - Rage and Mach - documents have not been freely released,
but 3d support was developed with docs provided to specific developers under
NDA (predating AMD's 100% open attitude).


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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