r300 falling back on swrast

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri May 1 05:50:59 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 03:42 -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> > So I've got a PowerBook that I like to use to determine if issues I  
> > come across are XQuartz specific or not... I've been using Fedora on  
> > it for a while, but jumped ship to Ubuntu because of some annoyances.
> > 
> > With Ububntu, however, the r300 DRI driver is not being selected.   
> > It's falling back on swrast for some reason.  I've bumped to trunk for  
> > libdrm, mesa, ati drivers.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 	Kernel driver in use: radeonfb
> 
> I'm not sure that DRM works when radeonfb's loaded, although I'm not 
> exactly the most knowledgeable source on this.

It works fine, all the anti-radeonfb propaganda ;) you've heard is about
x86. On PowerMacs with Radeons radeonfb is pretty much required for
console (until we get KMS working, of course).


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