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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] vgaradeon (was Re:  Problem of last update?)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:10:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dc957a5e4514f0d42854e5d98db62ec@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100127135832.GA32067@endeavour>

> On 1/19, the Radeon driver made it into the Plan 9 distribution; anyone with
> a Radeon R100 (7000, 7500, Mobility M6, M7), some R200 (8500, 9000) or
> some R300s (9500, 9700) is encouraged to try them out, see if they feel faster
> or work for you or whatnot.
>
> The driver also has, disabled-by-default, hardware-accelerated fill and scroll
> routines. If you wish to try them out, modify /sys/src/9/pc/vgaradeon.c to define
> HW_ACCEL; I'd like to hear if they work on your card and if you can feel any
> difference.
>
> In the short term future, I hope to test the driver on a number of other cards
> and add some PCI IDs/anything-else-needed, such as the R9600, 9800, and 9200/9250.
> Longer-term, my goal is always support for more cards.

haven't gotten it to work with "atom" bios on the sb600
integrated chipset.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <a3979372-34d3-46ee-893e-7e67b7930128@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.co>
2010-01-27 13:07 ` [9fans] Problem of last update? erik quanstrom
2010-01-27 13:11   ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-27 13:38   ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2010-01-27 13:43   ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2010-01-27 13:58   ` [9fans] vgaradeon (was Re: Problem of last update?) Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-01-27 14:10     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-01-27 17:36     ` geoff
2010-01-27 18:09       ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-27 19:02         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-27 19:11       ` geoff
2010-01-27 23:30       ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-01-27 23:35         ` ron minnich
2010-01-28  0:16           ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-28  0:25             ` ron minnich
2010-01-28  0:29               ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-28  9:34       ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2010-01-28  4:09     ` arpunk
2010-01-28  4:21     ` arpunk
2010-01-27 14:42 ` Pavel Klinkovsky

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