Re: [gNewSense-users] ATI blobs (was: runlevel 3 don't work)

[Jason Self]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Dmitry Samoyloff <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> Jason Self wrote:
> > I have RV620.
>
> OK, it's R600 family.
>
> > After it arrived I found that support for RV620 didn't appear in
> > radeonhd until version 1.2 and the version in the gNewSense
> > repositories was too old.
> >
> > A quick compile later and I had a fully functional video card. The 2D
> > performance is just fine and I find X to be very snappy. Even my  
> > 1080p
> > videos play well (they're using Theora and that codec admittedly  
> > isn't
> > very demanding in the first place.)
>
> Do you have XVideo working (you may check it using "xvinfo"  
> command)? If your
> video playback is smooth, I suppose you have it. R600 have only  
> textured Xv,
> therefore it needs accelerated OpenGL working also. Recompiling  
> driver isn't
> enough for that, you'd need the latest Mesa and latest DRM (direct  
> rendering
> manager) module for Radeons.
>
> The latter contains blobs. It located either in Linux (starting from  
> 2.6.32)
> or in Mesa/Xorg. 3D acceleration wouldn't work on R600 with deblobbed
> software. If you have accelerated 3D working (it could be checked  
> seeing
> "glxinfo | grep OpenGL" output) then your system is using ATI blobs.

I can check when I get home on the 17th. All I did was compile  
radeonhd from source (version 1.2.5, I think. I haven't bothered to  
upgrade to 1.3.0) and then modify my X config to use radeonhd instead.  
It was nice to see my LCD panel run at full resolution. There aren't  
any blobs, unless the act of compiling radeonhd somehow pulled in  
extra software over the net without my knowledge.

I'm using the kernel from http://aligunduz.org/gNewSense/ because the  
one in gNewSense was too old for my machine.