Experimenting with new HD 5750 card, looking for appropriate mailing list
Alex Deucher
alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 19:30:40 PST 2010
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I currently use a Radeon HD 4850, and have been very pleased to see
> the amazing amount of progress within the kernel DRM, xf86-video-ati,
> and Mesa since I started experimenting with 2D/3D acceleration last
> November.
>
> Recently, when Phoronix had an article about some initial Evergreen
> support appearing in the radeon driver and the kernel drm-radeon-testing
> git tree, I decided to buy a fanless HD 5750. That arrived several days
> ago.
>
> I'm looking for the appropriate mailing list to participate in
> testing the new Evergreen support as it begins to arrive. So far I have
> only had the HD 5750 installed long enough to make sure it is
> functioning properly (spent several hours gaming with it on Vista) in
> case it needed to be returned. I built two kernels out of the
> drm-radeon-testing branch, and would like to share my results. My X
> userspace was not new enough, so until I try my next round of
> experiments this Friday I can only meaningfully discuss the radeondrmfb
> behavior.
>
> It seems like the most appropriate mailing list for that discussion
> would be dri-users @ SourceForge. Unfortunately, that list looks pretty
> much dead. There is LKML, but that seems to be more for development
> than testing and user discussions; I'm not (yet) a developer, so I don't
> want to add noise over there.
> This list is for xf86-video-radeon, but I see a thread about HD 5830
> support here, so I thought I'd ask first. Where is the best place for
> me to post results (and kudos) for the people working on Evergreen support?
You've come to the right list.
Alex
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