Re: Mach64 - Etch - Xorg & DRI
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:01:56PM EDT, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 13:01 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> > Has anybody gotten direct rendering to work with the legacy mach64
> > Rage Pro Mobility card .. with the etch version of Xorg?
> >
> > The ATI web site does not provide drivers for this antique so I'll
> > have to use the one that's provided with Xorg.
> >
> > $ lspci
> >
> > [..] ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
>
> I did manage to get this working with a former linux kernel image of
> Etch, but I've had no luck with the more recent kernel image of Etch.
Would that be 2.4.27?
That's what I'm running on sarge.
> Anyway, how I did get it working was by installing a driver from
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
>
> Specifically, I installed this:
>
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/mach64-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
>
> It has an easy to use install script.
Sounds familiar .. I remember running a script that made everything
very simple.
But I need a recent 2.6 kernel in etch for other purposes.
Currently, I'm at 2.6.20.
Thanks much,
cga
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