ati 6.7.197 soon
Please test ati git master ASAP and report any problems on IRC or the ati ML, as I’m planning to make a release in the next couple days. We’ve fixed quite a few bugs since the last release and there has been a lot of changes, so I’d like to make sure this is a solid release. Some of the things you can expect in 6.7.197 when it’s released:
- improved pll handing
- better lid status support on Linux
- EXA transforms are fixed so rotation is fast on r1xx/r2xx with EXA
- improved support for more Mac cards
- cursor rotation fixes
- lots of bug fixes
Please test now!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Testing, testing — looks fine.
Any chances for EXA speedup and Render Accel for r3xx/r4xx?
December 17th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
not for 6.7.197, maybe later
December 18th, 2007 at 4:07 am
Is ati driver going to use EXA by default? As far as I know, currently it needs to be enabled manually in xorg.conf.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:38 am
I’ll test it. Is it intended to fix the regular lockups when using 3D on r3xx ?
December 18th, 2007 at 7:05 am
@Xav: in my experience, the combination of xf86-video-ati 6.7, mesa 7 and xserver 1.4 fixed all the lockup problems I had with my rv370. Even compiz has been rock stable in the last 3 months.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:48 am
in .196 xvidtune doesn’t work properly, it would be nice to have it in .197
December 18th, 2007 at 11:06 am
@chivustochesia: then I have a trouble: I’m using debian sid+experimental (i.e. mesa 7.0.2, xserver 1.4.1~git20071212 and ati 6.7.196) with compiz on an rv370, and I experience lockups regularly - AFAICS mainly on operations requiring gpf memory allocations (i.e. resizes, etc.).
December 18th, 2007 at 11:07 am
I meant gfx instead of gpf …
December 18th, 2007 at 11:15 am
XAA is still the default. xvidtune probably needs randr 1.2 support in order to work with the current driver (or any randr 1.2 aware driver for that matter).