Enabling video card hardware acceleration
Hi,
First of all, sorry if this has been discussed previously. I had no luck
finding complete information searching the archives.
I'd like to be sure that I am using my video card at its full
performance. I own a G3 B&W (Yosemite) that is geared by the common ATI
Rage 128. I find that video performance seems very low. I am running
kernel-image-2.4.20-powerpc, and when starting X, log says things as
follows:
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "r128"
(II) R128(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) R128(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
So, I search under /lib/modules and see that indeed r128.o is nowhere.
So I download kernel-source-2.4.20 and kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc, and
configure the kernel as I would using a common PC. When compiling, I get
errors from agpgart_be.c. Googling this, I find references on AGP not
being supported by any PowerPC 2.4 kernel! Is this information precise?
What if I compile and use DRI using the r128.o without the agpgart.o
module being available, is this a serious drawback? What about benh kernels?
Then I find these links:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/
http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/
Is these stuff useful for me? I am running Debian Sid.
Please note that by now I only refer to enabling DRI, I just need the
full 2D performance, but maybe later I will worry about OpenGL, Mesa,
and stuff like those! Are we Debian PowerPC users ready?
Quoting Leandro, "Am I being exceedingly stupid?" ;)
Thanks for any useful info.
Regards, Ismael
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