Hi all.
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I've been playing around with EXA on my r300 ( built X from git master,
just after the exa-damagetrack merge ). It's promising, but at the
moment still pushes my CPU usage through the roof ( though at least it's
usable ). Unfortunately when my CPU usage goes to 100%, my laptop gets
very hot, and I have to remove it from my lap and the fan gets very
noisy, etc. It's a hard life ...
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So I'd like to try out kdrive, which I've heard a bit about, but never
used. Does it support r300 chips? I just tried to build it ( using a
Gentoo ebuild, with the 'kdrive' USE flag ), and got:
* Removing unused kdrive drivers ...
* chips
...
[ ok ]
* epson
...
[ ok ]
* fbdev
...
[ ok ]
* pm2
...
[ ok ]
* i810
...
[ ok ]
* mach64
...
[ ok ]
* mga
...
[ ok ]
* neomagic
...
[ ok ]
* nvidia
...
[ ok ]
* r128
...
[ ok ]
* ati does not work on your architecture; disabling.
* ati
...
[ ok ]
* smi
...
[ ok ]
* sis300
...
[ ok ]
* vesa
...
[ ok ]
* via ...
[ ok ]
That bit about 'ati does not work on your architecture; disabling.'
doesn't sound so good. I'm on AMD64. I'm out of luck, right?
Dan