Re: Enhancing video

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:45:51 -0600, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 20:20 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:57:25 +0100, Mark Maas <mark@menem.mine.nu> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> 
> > You need to enable DRI, look in the maling list, it was asked some weeks ago.
> > With glxinfo you should see a line "direct rendering: Yes" if enabled.
> >
> > Basically, if you are using default stock kernel, you only need to
> > load your chipset AGP support for DRM (agpgart and one of the
> > intel-agp via-agp, this dipend on your motherboard),   then you need
> > to load the "radeon" module and then start X.
> >
> > With the latest hotplug, probably the version present in Sarge should
> > be enough, the loading stuff should be automatic, if not you can use
> > your /etc/modules file.
> >
> >
> > Andrea
> >
> > P.S. you can squeeze some FPS adding a couple of line to your
> > XF86config-4, like enabling page flip and fast write:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
> >         Driver          "ati"
> >         Option          "AGPMode"  "4"
> >         Option          "AGPFastWrite"  "on"
> >         Option          "EnablePageFlip"  "on"
> > EndSection
> 
> Out of curiosity, will it ever be as fast as, say, a GeForce FX5500
> using the nvidia binary?
> 

Absolutely not, the Radeon 9000 (RV250) is now considered a low-end
graphic card, but if you don't need to run Doom3 i think is good
enough, don't need a fan to run and has IMHO a good 2D quality.
Another pro is the 3D support by XFree86 without proprietary binary
drivers.


Andrea