Status of ATI driver

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Terry Barnaby<terry1 at beam.ltd.uk> wrote:
> On 07/24/2009 05:05 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>>
>> On 07/24/2009 04:55 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Thanks for the info. I will go in a bit deeper ...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Terry
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>
> I have tried to build/install drm (just the lib for the moment). It all
> builds and installs fine. However the files: radeon_cs.h, radeon_cs_gem.h
> and others do not get installed in /usr/include although radeon_drm.h
> does. The build of xf86-video-ati then fails due to the different API
> of radeon_cs_space_check() and some missing functions definitions.
> Am I missing something here ?
> I built/installed the git drm with:
>
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> make

you need to configure libdrm with --enable-radeon-experimental-api

Alex