Status of ATI driver

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Terry Barnaby<terry1 at beam.ltd.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Due to the problems I am having with ATI Radeon cards under Fedora 11, I thought
> I would try the latest GIT source tree. I am using the standard Fedora *-devel
> packages and just trying to build the drivers only. When I try to build
> the xf86-video-ati driver I get the error:
>
>   CC    radeon_textured_video.o
> In file included from radeon_textured_video.c:148:
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘RADEONDisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:109: warning: implicit declaration of function
> ‘radeon_cs_space_reset_bos’
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:110: warning: implicit declaration of function
> ‘radeon_cs_space_add_persistent_bo’
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:118: error: too few arguments to function
> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘R200DisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
>
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:507: error: too few arguments to function
> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘R300DisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
>
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:1049: error: too few arguments to function
> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c: In function ‘R500DisplayTexturedVideoMMIO’:
>
> radeon_textured_videofuncs.c:2500: error: too few arguments to function
> ‘radeon_cs_space_check’
>
> Plus others. There does not appear to be a radeon_cs_space_reset_bos()
> function in the xf86-video-ati source tree.
> Is the xf86-video-ati driver in a buildable state ?

You need a newer libdrm_radeon and kernel drm bits to build and use
the latest ddx/mesa bits from git.  The stuff shipped in f11 isn't
compatible.

Alex