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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