Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 the mental interface of
Jonathan Kaye told:
> Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>
[...]
> > The r300 Xorg driver supports 3D acceleration very well! On my
> > Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 glxgears runs 1600 fps in windowmode and
> > around 250 fps in fullscreen mode. The diver supports ATI's up to
> > the X850 which is AFAIR rv480? [0] No tainted kernel;) Just
> > OpenSource;)
> >
> > Elimar
> >
> > [0]
> >
> [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon#head-3ddc08075f8272e94cf5759e751db61f720bcbb1
> Thanks a lot Elimar. I wish it were true. On the link you supplied it says,
> "Cards below this point are not well supported for 3D, but do have
> accelerated 2D
> 9500 denotes a R300 based card."
> I've tried putting in "ati" in the xorg.conf as the driver and never been
> able to get 3D acceleration to work. (I think the r300 driver is
> called "radeon" or "ati" by xserver, yes? I've tried both but not too
> recently.
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"
BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "MergedFB" "no"
Option "UseFBDev" "yes" #Doesn't work with 6.6.2
Option "AGPMode" "4"
#Compiz Settings
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection
Section "Dri"
group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
$ dpkg -l | grep mesa
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.0.1-2
ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.0.1-2
ii libglu1-mesa 7.0.1-2
ii mesa-utils 7.0.1-2
Have fun ;)
Elimar
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