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andrewthomas

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I get some of those vbl messages, but other times I dont, does that mean its working at least for the most part? what do the vbl messages mean?

Yours is working alot better than mine.

This is supposed to check if we receive correct interrupt and if out check for
VBLANK is correct. If you get warnings with patch applied, it means we have
problem in at least one of mentioned places.
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To provoke VBLANK interrupt appearing, please use dynpm and start/stop for
example glxgears few times.

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venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

which kernel is the latest?

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andrewthomas

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

which kernel is the latest?

2.6.34

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venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

which kernel is the latest?

2.6.34

I mean in the repository there is kernel26-git and kernel26-drm-next etc

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mjr

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@Perry3d: which patches are applied to kernel26-drm-radeon-testing?

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@venky80: kernel26-drm-radeon-testing has the newest radeon features.
@mjr: I applied no patches. You can find the sources here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … on-testing

mjr

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Thanks!

regnak90

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I was wondering if it is possible to maintain video aspect ratio with this driver ? I am trying to play Eschalon Book I fullscreen but the game screen is stretched.

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

You can't run the game in your native resolution?
I have an option in my monitor-menu that can solve this. I can choose between stretch, original and stretch with the right aspect ratio.

But i don't know if the driver can do this. Did you look at the xrandr man page?

ijanos

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

You can't run the game in your native resolution?
I have an option in my monitor-menu that can solve this. I can choose between stretch, original and stretch with the right aspect ratio.

But i don't know if the driver can do this. Did you look at the xrandr man page?

Not every game support wide resolutions and laptops dont have monitor OSD, so in windows-land, you can tell the driver what to do when you are using 4:3 resolution with a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor.

andrewthomas

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@Perry3D    Just to let you know so you can put a note on the first page until it is updated, the mesa-r600-r700-git PKGBUILD (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34999) needs to be altered to work due to the following commit:

5 days    Remove demos that have moved to git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/demos.    Eric Anholt    873    -947072/+2

The following line needs to be removed from the PKGBUILD(the last line):

install -m755 progs/xdemos/glxinfo progs/xdemos/glxgears ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/

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endlessroad1991

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@andrewthomas:
    You can adopt mesa-r600-r700-git, I've been busy for quite a time...
@Perry3D:
    Now the latest power management features have been merged into Linus' mainline kernel.
    See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … 1551cf517f

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Maybe we should build an extra package: mesa-demos-git?

@endlessroad1991: I will update the package this weekend.

regnak90

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

You can't run the game in your native resolution?
I have an option in my monitor-menu that can solve this. I can choose between stretch, original and stretch with the right aspect ratio.

But i don't know if the driver can do this. Did you look at the xrandr man page?

No, the game is 800x600 only.
I tried xrandr but except putting some black lines it doesn't help much.
Anyway, the game is too slow with this driver to be realy playable, I will wait for Gallium3D before trying again.

venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Maybe we should build an extra package: mesa-demos-git?

@endlessroad1991: I will update the package this weekend.

would you update the first post with relevant info...it seems lots of things are happening!

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Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Voltage Tweaking Comes To R600+ GPUs On Linux
Uh, i will apply these patches with the next update (tomorrow?).

@venky: Yes, as soon i build a new package for the demos.

/edit: Can someone test it: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37574 ? Thanks.

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ijanos

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Voltage Tweaking Comes To R600+ GPUs On Linux
Uh, i will apply these patches with the next update (tomorrow?).

yeesssss.

venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

is there any update to the kernel, seems there hasn't been much after kernel 2.6.34 was released

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andrewthomas

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I haven't tried the latest (-git15) but the -git9 had a serious udev polling problem

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16052

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Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I updated the whole x86_64 repo. And i applied the voltage patches to kernel26-drm-radeon-testing: so far everything is working fine. But i don't know if the voltage drop is working, cause i own a desktop.

/edit: updated i686 too.

There is a new package: mesa-demos-git. This package contains glxinfo, glxgears and a lot of other tests (it was removed from the mesa repo).

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venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I updated the whole x86_64 repo. And i applied the voltage patches to kernel26-drm-radeon-testing: so far everything is working fine. But i don't know if the voltage drop is working, cause i own a desktop.

/edit: updated i686 too.

There is a new package: mesa-demos-git. This package contains glxinfo, glxgears and a lot of other tests (it was removed from the mesa repo).

what is the difference between mesa-full and mesa-demos-git   which one is most bleeding edge

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Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

One week ago the mesa-demos were included in the mesa-package. Now it is split in two packages.
Mesa-Full is the driver package and mesa-demos are some mesa-examples (glxgears and glxinfo for example).

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Voltage support has been merged to the drm-radeon-testing branch. Also tiling support is applied (should result in performance increasing).
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … 2d899265cb

venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

my fan keeps endlessly running ...iam on mobility radeon hd3670

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Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Are you using the kernel26-drm-radeon-testing kernel from my repo?

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