Re: mach64 alternatives
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what video card makers can debian sid just use out of
> the box without all of this aggravation? I had a trident vga with this
> machine earlier and if that's a good one, it will be easier to replace a
> monitor and change out a video card than what's going on over here now.
> The common dri stuff compiled and built well enough but modules aren't
> available for kernel 2.6.12-1-speakup-686 that I can find and download
> anywhere. Next time modules will be available is when that all goes up to
> 2.6.17-x and I don't know when that will be. No, I haven't yet succeded
> in building a kernel and patching it with speakup, when I try that project
> I think will be on a day with nothing else I'm trying to do so if it
> doesn't work, neither does the failure break anything permanently.
> gnopernicus along with gnome-speech and festival can get gnome talking if
> we don't have these video problems to contend with ahead of time. I can
> sometimes get sighted assistance that's had more experience than I've had
> to date but tonight isn't one of these times and this has been an ongoing
> project for a few months.
>
Debian will support all cards. dri (accelerated 3d) is supported for all cards
that have a dri driver available in the kernel. Have a look under
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/char/drm/
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