Re: Compiz with Xpress 200m (r300) cards?

On 10/6/07, Chris Jacques <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it at all likely that ATI will release the specs of the Xpress chips?
>

probably, but I'm not sure when.

> I'll give the reverse-engineering methods some testing in a little while,
> once I have some time on my hands.
>
> Should I try all the tools listed on that page, or just certain specific
> ones?

depends on where the problem is, but I'd say an iba variant for CP
buffers and valgrind for mmio.

Alex

>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
>
> On 10/6/07, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10/5/07, Chris Jacques <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Ok, is there anything I can do help in order to get it working?
> > >
> > > I'm guessing that it would take a lot of work to get it running, and I
> would
> > > guess that this is the reason that is not working now. Am I correct?
> > >
> > > I would like to help if anybody requires hardware testing.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for reporting information on the status of the
> driver.
> >
> > If 3D works at all on your laptop, then it's just a matter of fixing
> > the 3D driver (although easier said than done).  If it doesn't (some
> > XPRESS chips don't function at all when 3D is enabled), you've got a
> > lot more work ahead of you.  IIRC, when using compiz on XPRESS chips
> > the textures are scaled incorrectly.  If you have a regular r300/r400
> > chip you can simulate this behavior by disabling tcl.  You'd just need
> > to sort out what's happening and fix it.  if compiz works on XPRESS
> > chips with fglrx, you can probably reverse engineer what additional
> > state it need to work.  See this page for more information:
> > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReverseEngineering
> > Either that or wait for ati to release information about the XPRESS chips.
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
>
>
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