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From: Karl Chen <greyeye.cn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When could XGL support my video card ATI Radeon M300??
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:47:13
Message-Id: 9250d6180701030141t2666c916r6c12b235c5e0c28e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] When could XGL support my video card ATI Radeon M300?? by Jure Varlec
1 Ok...thx...
2 Let me have a try on that cart with AIGLX!!!
3 ^_^
4
5 On 1/3/07, Jure Varlec <exzombie@×××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
6 >
7 > On Sunday 31 December 2006 06:27, grey_eye@×××.com wrote:
8 > > I was interested in 3D desktop of XGL, but my video has not been
9 > supported
10 > > till now... This is the info of my card:
11 > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon
12 > > Mobility M300]
13 > >
14 > > So, is there a hope for me to use XGL in future???
15 >
16 > My Mobility X700 works quite well with opensource drivers included with
17 > xorg
18 > and AIGLX (never tried XGL, AIGLX is too simple to set up ;) ).
19 > Specifically,
20 > I tried it with x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.99.903-r1, media-libs/mesa-6.5.2,
21 > x11-libs/libdrm-2.3.0 and x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3.
22 > But I still prefer using my i915, even though it's slower and uses shared
23 > memory, since x700 tends to have hiccups on heavy disk IO and uses more
24 > power
25 > (== shorter battery life).
26 >
27 >
28 >