Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>>Mike A. Harris
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
>>OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
>
>One thing I'm willing to test is 3D support for Radeon IGM cards (like
>the one on my laptop). Since you're an XFree maintainer at RH, could you
>help me test it without seriously breaking FC?
Radeon IGP 3D support is not present in XFree86, including the
upcoming 4.4.0 release. It is present only in DRI-CVS as
experimental support which is in a developmental state.
I do not have Radeon IGP hardware and do not generally use
DRI-CVS except to cvs rdiff out bug fixes occasionally, and to
occasionally check in bug fixes.
The DRI project website has a lot of both developer and end user
documentation on using DRI-CVS as well as binary driver
snapshots. I can't help you directly to get it working, but if
you follow the documentation and/or ask for help on the DRI
mailing lists, someone might be able to help you to get it to
work.
Also, since I often get asked - I have no plans of including this
into our XFree86 until it is considered stable and mainstream.
With the current flux going on over at
XFree86.org right now, it
isn't even clear wether XFree86 will exist in a few months or
not, so it could be a while before this is supported.
May I also point out that this kind of non-canon package is exactly what
we intended to exist in "Fedora Alternatives". I am thinking now that
Alternatives will contain sub-projects like this, specifically packaged
for Fedora Core by volunteers who actually use it, and either
experimental in nature or conflicting in nature. Alternatives would be
available in many non-canon apt/yum/up2date channels that you can add to
your configurations and aside from being distributed from
you must rely entirely on the community
developers for support.
Warren