From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:10:53 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <3dc957a5e4514f0d42854e5d98db62ec@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <20100127135832.GA32067@endeavour> References: <20100127135832.GA32067@endeavour> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] vgaradeon (was Re: Problem of last update?) Topicbox-Message-UUID: c888896a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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