On Tuesday 05 October 2010 20:35:24 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
On 05.10.2010 20:27, Adam Chidlow wrote:
Hey Stefano,
What instructions did you follow? I'm interested on testing this (HD 4850 here).
Cheers, Adam ------Original Message------ From: Stefano Avallone Sender: arch-general-bounces@archlinux.org To: General Discusson about Arch Linux ReplyTo: stavallo@unina.it ReplyTo: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: [arch-general] some notes on the radeon gallium driver Sent: Oct 6, 2010 2:24 AM
Hi,
just if anyone is interested... I compiled mesa 7.9 and tried the radeon gallium driver on a X300 ati card. It works pretty good. For instance, now I can use the blur effect of kwin 4.5, while I couldn't with classic mesa 7.9 driver. I don't play games, so I cannot tell what is different with games...
Maybe we might have an ati-dri package in [testing] that ships r300g instead of r300c...
Stefano
You can use my -gallium AUR packages. I use them on my r500 and it works very well for games and the like.
Of course you can use the AUR packages, which download the current mesa git master. What I did was to adapt the PKGBUILD for mesa found in [extra] to build mesa 7.9 and then copying ${srcdir}/Mesa-7.9/lib/gallium/r300_dri.so to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/ Stefano