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Re: TiBook adventures



On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 13:47, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 the mental interface of 
> mammique told:
> 
> > Le sam 03/01/2004 à 01:21, Luis Sanjuan a écrit :
> > > X works fine here on my AlBook 1.33GHz 17'' (ATI Radeon 9600)
> > > 
> > > kernel: 2.6.0-ben1 (AFAIK, no problems with newer 2.6.X)
> > > debian-dist: sid
> > > xserver: xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk (from michel daenzer)
> > > XF86Config-4:
> > > <snip>
> > > Section "Device"
> > > 	Identifier	"AlBook Internal Video"
> > > 	Driver		"radeon"
> > > 	Option		"UseFBDev"
> > > EndSection
> > > <snip>
> > > 
> > 
> > This doesn't work on my machine, both 2.4.23 & 2.6.X fails, xserver
> > don't work :
> 
> Why do you want to use the radeon-driver from Michel? The radeon
> 9600 doesn't support OGL (mesa and the like) in linux. I have no
> problems with the framebuffer X-driver.
> Driver   "fbdev"

Even without 3D hardware acceleration, the radeon driver offers much
more than the fbdev driver, e.g. 2D acceleration, XVideo, multihead, ...


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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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