Re: Radeon 9200 SE SLow 3D Acceleration
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 17:32 -0600, Mauro wrote:
> > Of course there _is_ 3D accel :) 9200 is just an RV250, been supported
> > for some time by DRI.
> >
> > Ben.
> Not sure if it applies to ibooks but 3d accel with all 9200 cards is not
> a give:
> "hardware 3D acceleration (except R300 and IGP series cards), hardware
> cursor, XV extension, Xinerama extension."
> http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man4/radeon.4x.php
9200 is an RV250, and thus works. R300 is 9600,9700 and above.
> The other thing that make me think twice is that ydl does not list 3D
> accel for the ibook 1.2Gz.
Maybe they don't ship it enabled by default or have a version of X.org
where it is broken, or just forgot to list it ... it definitely works.
> "Apple iBook 800MHz-1.2GHz G4, 2003-current
> ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 with 32MB DDR
> Maximum number of colors: Millions (24-bit)
> 2D acceleration: Yes
> 3D acceleration: No
> Dual head: No
> Notes: 1024x768"
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/video.php
> Although this might just be a reflection of their lack of support, as
> can easily be the case.
> There are more examples but I guess they are just old.
> Come to think about it,
> http://www.aronchi.org/LinuxOnIBookG4
> has accel working.
>
>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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