I have read on Gatos devel list that the radeon theater drivers are now included in xorg-x11-6.8.1-x, is this true of the xorg packages for FC3?
Thanks Joshua
Le vendredi 29 octobre 2004 à 16:35 -0700, Joshua Andrews a écrit :
I have read on Gatos devel list that the radeon theater drivers are now included in xorg-x11-6.8.1-x, is this true of the xorg packages for FC3?
I have an old ATI Rage Pro IIC : $ xvinfo | head -3 X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: "ATI Mach64 Back-end Overlay Scaler"
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:35, Joshua Andrews wrote:
I have read on Gatos devel list that the radeon theater drivers are now included in xorg-x11-6.8.1-x, is this true of the xorg packages for FC3?
No. The packages in FC3 are the 6.8.1 release (presumably with small additional local fixes/integration-related changes - I haven't checked exactly what though); the integration of the Gatos stuff was done in the development tree after the release was made. Any further X updates for FC3, if they happen, will in all likelihood be made from the 6.8.X stable branch, so there probably won't be official Fedora packages including GATOS until FC4 at the earliest.
I'm pretty interested in this so if I have time I might try to make an unofficial package. If someone else gets around to it earlier announcing it here would probably be welcome. I don't think that the changes are dramatic enough that it should be all that difficult to swap out the base tarball from the FC3 RPMs. But I haven't tried yet, so I could be wrong... ;)
A quick word of warning, if you are inclined to do some experimentation: Compiling X from CVS or tarballs and dumping it on top of your old RPM-based installation is not really a good idea. I did this a few years ago once, and it turned out that XFree86 and Red Hat had differing ideas of what the direction of a symlink to some directory should be (I can't remember the details but it had to do with LSB compliance IIRC). When I later tried a distro upgrade it died miserably on me and I had to reinstall from scratch. Using a completely separate X tree compiled from CVS should work OK, but you need to make sure that it doesn't clobber anything in your original install.
Cheers, Per
Per Bjornsson wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:35, Joshua Andrews wrote:
I have read on Gatos devel list that the radeon theater drivers are now included in xorg-x11-6.8.1-x, is this true of the xorg packages for FC3?
No. The packages in FC3 are the 6.8.1 release (presumably with small additional local fixes/integration-related changes - I haven't checked exactly what though); the integration of the Gatos stuff was done in the development tree after the release was made. Any further X updates for FC3, if they happen, will in all likelihood be made from the 6.8.X stable branch, so there probably won't be official Fedora packages including GATOS until FC4 at the earliest.
I'm pretty interested in this so if I have time I might try to make an unofficial package. If someone else gets around to it earlier announcing it here would probably be welcome. I don't think that the changes are dramatic enough that it should be all that difficult to swap out the base tarball from the FC3 RPMs. But I haven't tried yet, so I could be wrong... ;)
A quick word of warning, if you are inclined to do some experimentation: Compiling X from CVS or tarballs and dumping it on top of your old RPM-based installation is not really a good idea. I did this a few years ago once, and it turned out that XFree86 and Red Hat had differing ideas of what the direction of a symlink to some directory should be (I can't remember the details but it had to do with LSB compliance IIRC). When I later tried a distro upgrade it died miserably on me and I had to reinstall from scratch. Using a completely separate X tree compiled from CVS should work OK, but you need to make sure that it doesn't clobber anything in your original install.
Cheers, Per
For years now I have been having major pains with Gatos and Red Hat. It seems the Gatos development is mostly aimed at slackware and since Red Hat kind of goes in its own direction with the kernel and such it has never been stright forward getting radeon multimedia stuff working. I have been building kernel modules, building XFree86, etc. until I have finally given up with Fedora's short life cycle. When I read that Gatos was finally merging with xorg I was really hopefull. Oh well! Anyway, I'll wait for FC3 and maybe give it another shot merging it into Fedora xorg-x11 sources.
Thanks, Joshua
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 18:03, Joshua Andrews wrote:
For years now I have been having major pains with Gatos and Red Hat.
Funny, I actually had decent luck when I was playing with this a few years ago, actually just dropping in the Gatos driver binaries. I don't think that there was ever a setup that would do both 3D acceleration and video capture for the Rage128 (which I had) though.
It seems the Gatos development is mostly aimed at slackware and since Red Hat kind of goes in its own direction with the kernel and such it has never been stright forward getting radeon multimedia stuff working.
Well, the old Red Hat Linux kernels were pretty heavily patched, and in order to avoid regressions the FC1 kernel was too, but the 2.6 FC2+ kernels are really pretty close to mainline, so patching stuff should be much easier nowadays. In any case, I'm pretty sure that you shouldn't need a patched DRI driver any longer; the km kernel module should likely work just fine in the Fedora kernel although I haven't tested it.
I have been building kernel modules, building XFree86, etc. until I have finally given up with Fedora's short life cycle. When I read that Gatos was finally merging with xorg I was really hopefull. Oh well! Anyway, I'll wait for FC3 and maybe give it another shot merging it into Fedora xorg-x11 sources.
I think the way to go is to grab the FC3 SRPM and replace the base tarball in it with the current X.org development tree. You'll need to figure out what patches are still needed, and possibly adjust them, though. At least the situation should be much better than it was with XFree86, IIRC there were tons of local fixes in those...
Good luck, Per
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