[arch-general] some notes on the radeon gallium driver

[Stefano Avallone]

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 at archlinux.org
> > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux
> > ReplyTo: stavallo at 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