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Re: TiBook Graphics Configuration



"Gregory P. Keeney" <gregory.p.keeney@lmco.com> writes:

> Has anyone successfully run XFree86 4.1 on a TiBook with accelerated
> ATI support, or better yet, DRI support, rather than using the
> framebuffer?

Yep.  I'm watching glxgears spin really really fast as I write this
email :)

> All I have been able to do is crash the X server... Of course, the
> framebuffer drivers a quite snappy, but something in me desires to
> use the native drivers... (Maybe it's that neurotic habit of mine of
> fixing things that aren't broken...) Also, then, I should be able to
> get 3D acceleration running...

I started with kernel 2.4.8-pre3.  Then, I downloaded the source from:

<URL:http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/>

Then, it was just a matter of 'make -f Makefile.linux', then 'cp r128.o
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/kernel/char/dri'.



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