FS#7850 - DRI not working with old ATI mach64 (and solution)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Denis Martinez (denis) - Saturday, 18 August 2007, 23:38 GMT
Last edited by Alexander Baldeck (kth5) - Wednesday, 05 September 2007, 09:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08 Don't Panic
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
No DRI with mach64 cards (using kernel26, xf86-video-ati, and mesa).
The drivers do not exist in Arch's standard packages.

Solution:
- Compile kernel26 with the attached patch (which adds the mach64 driver back in 2.6.22, which apparently was broken in this release). You'll have to make a new config because it's not enabled by default.
- Use xorg-server from testing (otherwise I get version mismatch errors)
- Rebuild xf86-video-ati from testing, adding mach64 to the dri drivers to compile
   drm-mach64-2.6.21.patch (131.7 KiB)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Wednesday, 05 September 2007, 09:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  prealpha software would mix in to be a dependecy of many stable things.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 19 August 2007, 08:48 GMT
this patch looks scary, it touches the internals of the dri structure, which is also used by other drivers. The DRI included in the kernel is outdated compared to libdrm git.

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