Radeon X200M help offered

[michael lang]

On 27/10/2007, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> Oops, that actually should have gone to the ML.
>
> Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On 10/27/07, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> >> Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>>> I've got a laptop with a Radeon Xpress 200M, and am wondering what I
> >>>> can do to help with getting 3D hardware acceleration to work properly,
> >>>> more specifically, is there a place where the basics are listed on how
> >>>> to 'hack' on the driver(I'm also prepared to test stuff)? Also, is
> >>>> this the correct list to be mailing, or should I mail the MESA list
> >>>> instead?
> >>> It should for a large value of work, googleearth and stuff wfm...
> >>> compiz not so much..
> >> Oh, googleearth works for you? Out of the box, or did you touch some
> >> buttons? Cause it doesn't work for me (XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)).
> >>
> >
> > you may need to disable lowimpact fallbacks...
> >
> > disable_lowimpact_fallback=1 googleearth
> >
> > out of the box with what installed? Fedora 8 will be okay, other
> > distros no idea..
>
> With OOTB I meant without tweaking the xorg.conf. I'm running mesa-7.0.1
> and ati-6.7.195 but googleearth falls back to software rendering:
>
> Warning, xpress200 detected.
> do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
> Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.
> *********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
> File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 471
> Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag
> ***************************************************************************
> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
> gx=0.210000, gy=0.710000, bx=0.149990, by=0.059990
> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
> gx=0.210000, gy=0.710000, bx=0.149990, by=0.059990
> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
> gx=0.210000, gy=0.710000, bx=0.149990, by=0.059990
> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
>
> jan at jan ~/src $ echo $LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH
>
> jan at jan ~/src $ echo $LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH
>
> jan at jan ~/src $
>
>
> and with disable_lowimpact_fallback=1:
>
> jan at jan ~/src $ disable_lowimpact_fallback=1 googleearth
> ATTENTION: default value of option disable_lowimpact_fallback overridden
> by environment.
> Fatal error in __driConfigOptions line 129, column 0: illegal default
> value: 1.
> Google Earth has caught signal 6.
>
> Here are my config/log: http://pastebin.ca/raw/751578
>
> Or is this something I should talk about with google?
>
>
> - Jan
>
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Eh, actually DRI doesn't work at all here on my laptop. I'm running
Mesa-7.0.1 with xorg-server-1.4.0 and ati-driver-git. glxgears does
run reasonably smoothly with ~630 FPS...

Greetings,
Michael.