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On Monday 16 October 2006 00:02, fire-eyes wrote: |
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> I am interested in getting hardware acceleration, if that's the right |
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> term, with xorg 7.1 and xorgs radeon drivers. I tried this a while |
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> ago but it meant a lot of messing with cvs software and goofing with |
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> header files, it was a pain. Hopefully it's easier now. |
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> lspci lists my card as GA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc |
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> M22 [Radeon Mobility M300], the more common name is x300. |
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> Any pointers out there? I am not interested in ati-drivers as they |
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> reliably hang my laptop, and do it hard. |
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What laptop do you have? My Dell Latitude D810 uses the same card and |
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all ati-drivers in the 8.20 series work well for me. Perhaps you have |
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an exotic setting in xorg.conf? |
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To the best of my knowledge, the OSS radeon driver does not provide 3D |
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acceleration (yet), but things are improving in this area. To enable |
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it, you need to include it in the VIDEO_CARDS variable |
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in /etc/make.conf and specify it as the Device driver in xorg.conf as |
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usual. |
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I don't track the daily progress of the radeon driver any more, so if |
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anyone else knows how to get it to do reliable 3D, feel free to correct |
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me :-) |
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alan |
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