[openbeos] Re: Haiku Radeon Driver: Has anyone had success with an X1950 Pro?
- From: "Euan Kirkhope" <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:52:36 +0000
On 28/11/2007, Finn Bastiansen <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> > Should be soon and, according to an AMD engineer, the 2D acceleration code
> > from
> > older radeons should still be accepted by R500 & R600 command processor.
>
> then I wonder why the BeOS driver does not work with these cards. Euan
> probably tried to just add the respective IDs, so I wonder why it doesn't
> work although the acceleration code should still work with R5xx and R6xx.
>
> Anyway, with the availability of a Linux driver the respective changes will
> still have to be made on the BeOS/Haiku driver. I have no idea how long that
> will take, but as a BeOS user I am used to waiting :-)
>
> > For more interested details, check John Bridgman (bridgman) post at bottom:
> > http://www.phoronix.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-6378.html
>
> Thanks, I will do that. I will have to read some more mails from their lists
> to get an idea how far developent has progressed.
>
> > PS: I'm also an x1950 pro owner, BTW. My previous x850xt wasn't supported
> > by our
> > Haiku driver either, resulting into a reboot. It's unrelated but since, the
> > card
> > "dies": VRAM goes bad.
>
> With the X1950 BeOS goes into 640x480 VESA mode here.
>
> I will have to try a bit more how BeOS and Windows behave with two graphics
> cards in one computer connected to one monitor (X1950 AGP and GeForce2 PCI)
> ... Maybe I can get it to work to use the Geforce2 in BeOS (hardware 3D
> aceleration :-) ) and the Radeon in Windows. From the BeOS perspective,
> Rudolf said it should work. But he didn't know that they are both connected
> to the same monitor, and that is what upsets the screen or Windows, I think
> (probably it's the screen; my CRT is switching into something like "no
> signal" or standby mode).
>
> Greetings
> Finn
>
>
I haven't tried X1x00 hardware IDs on the radeon driver. There are
numerous other aspects of the driver that need tweaking / rewriting
for the R500 series: including BIOS, output configuration, and the
Memory Controller setup. I also don't have an R500 based card. I
have an R600 though. There hasn't ever been one instance of a new
Radeon generation "just working". The code has always needed some
fair amount of adjustment.
Euan
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