mesa+gallium3d+r6xx: first impression

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929

well I've took the plunge with my r635.
it works, glxinfo posts alot of data, glxgear is garbled, there is no acceleration but as I don't need it, it doesn't matters.
I'm testing it with kernel 2.5.34.3 will try with 34 later on.
it feels abit faster might be me thought.
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Rion · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 9:26 am Post subject:

2.5.34.3 ?

where did you get it?

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DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929

pingufunkybeat · l33t Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 610

You need to hack the sources to make the gears run.

Anyway, the important thing is that this is out in the open now, so it's not only dependent on jglisse's time, other developers will (hopefully!) jump in.

The r300g devs in particular must have lots of know-how that can be useful to bring r600g up-to-speed, or at least that's my naive guess (many things will obviously be different).

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Hopefully this won't take as long to become usable as the old r600 3D...

wswartzendruber · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:31 pm Post subject:

Sweet. Gallium3D can't take over the world soon enough. Legacy Mesa really needs to die.

hallabro · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 24

Have you guys noticed the first r600g pull into the mesa repo?

Now off to play some more.

Edit: Aww, seems it doesn't enable any acceleration (yet) according to the x11-overlay log.

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929

chithanh · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 9:01 am Post subject:

For those using media-libs/mesa-9999 from the x11 overlay, there is now an eselect mesa module to switch between classic and gallium.

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929

found a bug, it seems that logging out of the user or/and screen went into off state/sleep/suspend makes the driver revert to sw.
info was passed to david airlied
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Kingoftherings · Guru Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 328

wswartzendruber · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject:

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

chithanh · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject:

As was already said, LLVM is only used for llvmpipe and r300g at this time. r600g and the other gallium drivers do not use it.

alexbuell · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 10:48 pm Post subject:

chithanh · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 12:01 am Post subject:

For nouveau, you have no choice between gallium and classic. That is why eselect mesa does not show it. And the syntax is eselect mesa set family architecture, e.g.

Frostwarrior · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 165

Wow man, thanks a lot!
Yesterday I played urt with the legacy mesa drivers. Hope the gallium driver develops well. If that's so, my video card preference will be flipped like a waffle.

I recently tried to use llvmpipe with gallium3d, but when I try to start a 3d app (from urban terror to glxgears) it shows this:
http://pastebin.com/A4A35GRE

I'm using mesa-9999, libdrm-999 and llvm-999