Re: Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Stephen Powell:
> On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:24:00 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
> > ...
> > the VGA chipset is about 8 years (or so) old so
> > don't expect astonishing results :-)
>
> I said the computer was new TO ME. I never said it was NEW.
> This is a server machine literally thrown away by a business.
> But it is now the most capable machine that I own.
Ah, so a server board indeed.
> > And you need 3D acceleration because...?
>
> I don't NEED it, I just WANT it. I want it
> mainly because I want to run GNOME 3. GNOME 3 initializes
> in fallback mode if the graphics chip does not support 3D
> acceleration, it seems.
Well maybe using LLVMPIPE software renderer will be faster and easier on
this machine. But then I don´t know which versions of which debian package
know to have it working out of the box.
I´d bet that it will work on Wheezy, but then I never tried it. No need
to.
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