RE: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slaven Peles
> Sent: dinsdag 28 augustus 2001 6:50
> To: Rogério Brito; debian
> Subject: Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...
>
>
> On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote:
> > > Make sure what chipset your video card use. Some of Rage Mobility
> > > cards use Mach64 in which case there is no help; there is
> no render
> > > support for these.
> >
> > Uh, oh!
> >
> > I guess that mine is one of those. Mine is an ATI Rage
> > Mobility LT, with only 4MB of RAM and, AFAIK, this is a
> > Mach64. :-(
> >
> > Is it not possible to implement the RENDER extension with this
> > hardware or isn't there demand for it? I'd surely love to get
> > my notebook working with one of these.
> >
> > This is one of the things that aren't so good with portables:
> > they aren't as expansible as their desktop counterparts. :-(
> >
> >
> > []s, Roger...
>
> Nowhere at XFree86 web site is explicitely said that there is
> no DRI support
> or render extension for Mach64 based video cards, but
> apparently they are not
> supported. It seems that nobody is willing to make a driver
> for these cards,
> so we can either try to do it ourselves, or just live without
> those goodies
> :-(. Oh, yes, we can also ask ATI to release Linux drivers
> for Mach64 cards.
>
> Slaven
Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine with an
Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the RENDER extension.
Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to be support for it (atleast,
i never got it work), but now RENDER simply works.
Not that I use it though... because when i turn on anitaliasing in KDE only
the ugliest fonts seem to be available to all X applications. I'd rather
have everything in a good font (lucida, helvetica) than have to look at an
ugly one that is antialiased.
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