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aegiswings · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 10

I'm relatively new to PS3 development having just bought a PS3 and installed ubuntu on it about a week ago. My PS3 is at 2.00 and I'm not going to upgrade it to 2.10 for the obvious reasons.

I have a lot of experience with NVIDIA's GPUs (my day job is writing OpenGL drivers for a GPU very similar to the RSX) and I'd like to help out with libraries for using the RSX if I can. I've heard that there is a fair amount of progress made on 3D support which I'm guessing came from the Nouveau project. What is left to have real 3D functionality on the PS3 now? What prevents us from running aiglx and a compositing window manager (like Compiz)? Why are we still stuck in the world of a coupld of demos and no real applications yet?

IronPeter · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 207

There is simple 3D API with vertex/index buffer support, texture support, shader compiler:

svn co svn://svn.ps2dev.org/ps3ware/trunk/libps3rsx libps3rsx

I do not know any difference between NV40 and RSX. I think that it is easy to port Nouveau high-level stuff. Just recompile it.

The main problem is DRI level stuff. I do not know any attempts to write DRI interface for PS3. You may try to implement DRI interfaces with pre-2.1 hw.

Some advanced features will be missed ( we do not have *outer* register access - TILE and ZCOMP setup can not be done ).

phaielip · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 6

ok, I don't want to open a new topic so I will use this one :
I'm trying to run the examples of the libps3rsx and I have some problems with that...
So first, if there is another topic speaking about my problems, just tell me, I'll check, but I haven't see them (the problem is that I don't speak nor read english very fluently, so I miss a lot of information when reading theses posts).

Ok here are my questions :
I'm using Kubuntu (7.10), with a playstation 3 60 Gb.
I've downloaded the libps3rsx folder, and all I think I needed to run the examples (libspe, ...)
But it don't run ! when I run all the exemples, my screen move to the left, and nothing happen...
when I force to quit, a segmentation fault appear.

I thought that's why I haven't applied the " Glaurung's kernel patch", but here is another problem : I can't find the "ps3fb.c" file on my system to apply the patch, and I don't even hnow were it is supposed to be ?
I think I miss a big thing, but I don't know why, is someone have an idea ?

another question is about the use of libps3rsx and the driver ps3rsx. When I try to run an example of libps3rsx, if the driver ps3 is activated, then an error message appeard "RSX is busy...".
So, it isn't possible to use libps3rsx when the ps3 driver is executed ?

i'm sorry for the bad english...

ldesnogu · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 95

phaielip · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 6

Hum, ok, I already know that. but my problem is that, in the kernel sources, I can find the ps3fb.h file, I can find the ps3fb driver, but I don't have any ps3fb.c file to patch...
when I try to find this file :

ldesnogu · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 95

It seems you only have the kernel headers installed, not the source.
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phaielip · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 6

that's it, and I've been looking the source for one day, I have found ps3fb.c on the net, but... How should I install it ?

ldesnogu · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 95

phaielip · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 6

don't worry, I know what you mean. But, the thing is that I don't find any package whith that ps3fb...
well, I haven't use Linux for a while, so I'm just missing something I don't remember... that's makes me crazy !
I think I will try a debian or a gentoo... It will be more efficient than a ubuntu... even if I have to compile the kernel or whatever else.

ldesnogu · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 95

That's a bit extreme :)

Try something like this: apt-get install linux-source-2.6.12 (replacing the version number with the kernel you have).
But if you really don't feel at home using Ubuntu, I am not sure other distros will make it easier for you.

I am not trying to look negative, I just warn you ;)
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androvsky · Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 33

Agreed, stick with Ubuntu. You'll have much more trouble with other distros, I promise :)

try: apt-get install linux-source-`uname -r`

IronPeter · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 207

Now you do not need to modify kernel sources.

Init kernel module is integrated into libps3rsx package. Just run cd src/init && ./startup.sh
from libps3rsx root.

phaielip · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 6

Ok, it works, I just missed the startup.sh... didn't see him !
thanks ironPeter. Now I'll check what I fun I could find with that !