x1270 and/or RS690m completely ignored?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 09:10:15 PDT 2010


On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:20 AM, dE . <de.techno at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone! Nice job with the drivers, most cards are supported well.
>
> But it appears the state of xf86-video-ati for the chip x1270 has
> remained same for a year; there are no performance gains or bug fixes
> which appears very unlikely. So I think there's something wrong with
> the configuration, or this might just be true.
>
> x1270 is suppose to belong to the HD series (and it is HD capable).
> I'm using Gentoo with the latest development version of mesa, libdri,
> xserver and xf86-video-ati but when I switched to the development
> unstable branch, instead of things being improved it degraded. Earlier
> glxgears used to draw around <500 FPS but now it's ~160. I do have DRI
> enabled. This is my xorg.conf -
>

3D support is provided by mesa, not xf86-video-ati.  What versions of
xserver, mesa, and xf86-video-ati are you using?  Also, take a look at
your xorg log and dmesg to make sure the DRI is properly enabled.

Alex


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