Re: Render acceleration ATI Radeon Mobile 9100

[Xavier <_xavier_@laposte.net>]

Michael Biebl wrote:

> David R. Litwin wrote:
>> I have a Toshiba A70 laptop with Mobile P4 H-T, ATI Radeon Mobile RS300M
>> AGP 9100IGP, KDE 3.5, Sid, kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp.
>> 
>> How do I enable the render acceleration on my card? I wish to use the
>> Translucency effects offered by KDE. Doing so currently makes every thing
>> un-usably slow.
>> 
>> In addition, how can a card be both AGP and IGP? This comes from
>> KInfoCentre.
>> 
>> Thank you kindly in advance.
>> 
>> Some relevant bits from xorg.conf:
>> 
>> Section "Module"
>>     Load    "bitmap"
>>     Load    "dbe"
>>     Load    "ddc"
>>     Load    "dri"
>>     Load    "evdev"
>>     Load    "extmod"
>>     Load    "freetype"
>>     Load    "glx"
>>     Load    "int10"
>>     Load    "record"
>>     Load    "type1"
>>     Load    "v4l"
>>     Load    "vbe"
>> EndSection
>> 
>> Section "Device"
>>     Identifier    "ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP"
>>     Driver        "ati"
>> EndSection
> 
> Given that your are running XOrg 6.9 from unstable you could try to use
> EXA and the RenderAcceleration.
> So set the Section "Device" to something like this:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Driver      "radeon"
> Identifier  "ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP"
>         VendorName  "ATI"
>         BoardName   "ATI Radeon"
> 
>         Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
>         Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> EndSection
> 
> But beware, EXA is still considered experimental.
> 
> HTH,
> Michael

I've tried this for me and it works.
I have an "PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge".

Thank you

Xavier