Re: amd / radeon users, attention.
hi jeff (and nicole),
it was definitely working, but i was using a generic AGP port driver. i
just noticed that 2.4.10 has support for KT266 agp, (as well as radeon frame
buffer). i'm now getting about 800 fps on gears at 24 bpp.
at 16 bpp color depth, i'm getting over 1100 fps. YEAH!!!! :)
pete
begin: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org> quote
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> > i just got my epox 8kha board with a radeon card to work with DRI under
> > linux. it was rough going, and i've seen, while websurfing, that alot of
> > people have had trouble with this in the past. many people are getting "agp
> > unsupported" messages by the agpgart driver.
> >
> > if anybody needs help (i assume this is going into the archives), feel free
> > to contact me.
> >
> > i just got a frame rate of 250 fps on gears. mamma mia! :-)
>
> Are you sure it's working? I get something like 800 fps on gears on a
> Radeon DDR using a 1.4 GHz athlon, at 16 bit color depth?
>
> Making this stuff work on the newer boards *is* tough. AGPGart must be
> loaded as a module, or patched to understand the AMD 760. passing
> agp_try_unsupported=1 as a kernel parameter in the boot loader does not
> work, despite the documentation which claims it does. I also needed a
> patch from Steven Tweedie to be able to start X at all (DRI or otherwise)
> using the Radeon.
>
> I haven't noticed any difficulties particular to getting this to work on
> Debian. It's just the same magnitude pain as on Slackware, Red Hat, et.
> al.
>
> -jwb
>
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