Additional info (Score 2, Informative)

Hello.

I'm actually the original writer of this story, however at the time of writing, I hadn't made an accounbt on /. yet (I'm such a lurker. ;)

Anyway, I see from the comments people are having trouble with the GART driver (Getting DRI to work with a Radeon, etc.) So I will now post some more information.

My setup is:

• Asus A7N8X
• Radeon 9700 Pro
• GART patch applied to vanilla 2.4.20 kernel with a fresh build
• fglrx 2.9.12
• XFree86 4.3.0

I've tested this configuration both on Gentoo and Debian Sid.

The DRI drivers do indeed work, as you can see here:

cthulu root # glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes

as well as here:
cthulu root # fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon 9700 Pro Athlon (3DNow!)
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-2.9.12)

The fversion of FireGL drivers I am using are indeed 2.9.12 -- these are not currently available on ATI's website. This thread on transworld gaming's forums have links to tarballs for the FGLRX 2.9.12 drivers for both XF86 4.2 and 4.3. Dont mind that the thread actually says 2.9.8, the links are current.

Other than the updated drivers, I hadn't done anything special to get the GART driver and the R9700 to play nice together. However, it did take me 3 straight days of searching via google to figure out that the Kernel does not support AGP 3.0 in 2.4.x implementations, so the easiest workaround is to simply disable it in the bios as I mentioned in the story.

run fglrxconfig, generate your config file, restart X, you're good to go.

On another note, yes indeed -- if you read the new license carefully, the .diff file is released under the GPL. No, the net driver is not, nor do I believe the sound driver is either, but I may be mistaken. I really dont give a damn what liscense is used as long as my hardware works. :)

As for the patch to the radeon driver that supports AGP3.0, I'll have to check it out. Sounds interesting.

Oh, by the way:
cthulu root # glxgears
20234 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4046.800 FPS
23297 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4659.400 FPS
23300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4660.000 FPS
23298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4659.600 FPS

Hope this helps someone out there. :)