Re: Radeon 9200 SE SLow 3D Acceleration
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:45:04 -0600
Mauro <mcepeda@ualberta.ca> wrote:
> > > Last I heard there is no 3D accel for 9200 radeons, although I get
> > > considerably better fps on my ibook with the 9200 radeon. Would a
> > > xorg.conf from that ibook be helpful?
> >
> > I assume you're only talking about PPC? Glxgears reports 1800+ FPS
> > on my i386 arch. That is with a 9200SE. And only the first XWindows
> > instance gets that speed, the others are down close to the OP's
> > speed (which would seem to confirm that I am seeing some 3D Accel).
>
> k looks like I am wrong, I thought 3D was supported till just before
> the 9200, see
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon#head-298bd23baafb9c2fad1774d1d2fa54bd2aa55e7d
> "the 8500 through 9250 are supported by the r200 DRI driver"
> "The [WWW]r300 project has an experimental 3D driver for R300 and
> newer chips,
> with some success reported for R4xx cards and on PowerPC.
> This driver needs more work, and as of April 2005 it is available only
> as source code from CVS. "
>
> There's also a very complete how to at:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/297228
> 3D acceleration on my laptop with ATI IGP 9200 SE U1 video card
Yes, the 9200 is one of those supported by the r200. When I change
consoles on my desktop, I see a message in /var/log/syslog indicating
it's using the r200 driver:
Apr 27 12:54:45 jacob kernel: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
I am using stock kernel drivers (radeon, agpgart and nvidia_agp) and
have never installed ATI's drivers.
Lspci reports this for my video card:
0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
[Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
And my current kernel version is 2.6.9-2-k7 (though I originally got it
working with a 2.6.7 kernel).
Again, I can't say what differences there might be for a ppc, but it
works great on my x86.
HTH,
Jacob
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