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Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.



Maybe someone can explain the differences b/w the different X servers (i.e
Xpmac vs XF68_FBDev) and what is needed to get stable accelerated X
support?
urls will be welcomed as well.

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Hugh Caley wrote:

> Also as an FYI, Xpmac_mga works fine to accelerate my preset PB G3 (Lombard),
> and it also worked fine with my old Wallstreet machine.  In fact, even when I
> "hacked" the atyfb driver and got it to work on my Wallstreet, it still killed
> some applications when I was using 32-bit color.  Never had that problem with
> Xpmac_mga at all.
> 
> So, even though I'm using the BootX "No Video Driver" option, I'm still getting
> accelerated X.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> bigj wrote:
> 
> > > > XF86_FBDev accellerated? Or just I should give parameter in XF86Config
> > > > and/or BootX and/or fbset ? (I'm really new to Mac hardware :)
> > >
> > > You must use atyfb to get acceleration on ATI Mach64.
> > >
> >
> > Geert et al,
> >    The problem is not as simple.  The G3 laptops have a different kind of
> > video chip then other ATI based machines.  On my laptop the chip is
> > /pci/ATY,264LT-G and even though I use fb0: (after adding my chip_id to
> > the atyfb.c) I still don't get any acceleration with X.  Now if memory
> > serves me right the card was an ATI Rage with 2D and 3D acceleration.
> > I'm using XF86_FBDEV_pm2_4 with no luck as well.
> > I'll be happy to give anyone an account on the laptop for some hacking.
> >
> > Jambi.
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