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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:12:16
Message-Id: 201101172257.24038.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2 by Daniel Tihelka
1 On Monday 17 January 2011 22:31:14 Daniel Tihelka wrote:
2 > Hallo Mick.
3 > Thank you very much - it helped. Removing 'video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3
4 > vga=792'
5 > from kernel boot options, and framebuffer-related stuff in kernel config,
6 > especially:
7 >
8
9 You can have enabled the following:
10
11 CONFIG_FB=y
12
13 > # CONFIG_FB_DDC is not set
14 > # CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT is not set
15 > # CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set
16 CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS is not set <--enable this =y
17 > # CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING is not set
18 > # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
19 > # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
20 CONFIG_DISPLAY_SUPPORT is not set <--enable this =y
21 > # CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK is not set <--you can also enable this
22 > # CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY is not set
23
24 and also these:
25
26 CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
27
28 CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=64
29
30 > (not all the options were removed by hand, it is just diff of the configs,
31 > and maybe, some of them could be enabled without causing problems).
32
33 Yes, see above suggestions.
34
35 > Now, there are much more 'drm'-related messages in 'dmesg', and also X.org
36 > uses the drm correctly. The 'glxinfo' returns:
37 > ...
38 > OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
39 > OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on RV370
40 > OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.9
41 > OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
42 > ...
43 >
44 > It looks good now. Thank you very much for your advice again.
45
46 You're welcome. :-)
47
48 All of this good advice is from this page:
49
50 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
51 --
52 Regards,
53 Mick

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