From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:06:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610160906.29634.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4532B005.8040204@fire-eyes.org>
On Monday 16 October 2006 00:02, fire-eyes wrote:
> I am interested in getting hardware acceleration, if that's the right
> term, with xorg 7.1 and xorgs radeon drivers. I tried this a while
> ago but it meant a lot of messing with cvs software and goofing with
> header files, it was a pain. Hopefully it's easier now.
>
> lspci lists my card as GA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc
> M22 [Radeon Mobility M300], the more common name is x300.
>
> Any pointers out there? I am not interested in ati-drivers as they
> reliably hang my laptop, and do it hard.
What laptop do you have? My Dell Latitude D810 uses the same card and
all ati-drivers in the 8.20 series work well for me. Perhaps you have
an exotic setting in xorg.conf?
To the best of my knowledge, the OSS radeon driver does not provide 3D
acceleration (yet), but things are improving in this area. To enable
it, you need to include it in the VIDEO_CARDS variable
in /etc/make.conf and specify it as the Device driver in xorg.conf as
usual.
I don't track the daily progress of the radeon driver any more, so if
anyone else knows how to get it to do reliable 3D, feel free to correct
me :-)
alan
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2006-10-15 22:02 [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]) fire-eyes
2006-10-16 7:06 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-16 13:50 ` fire-eyes
2006-10-16 14:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-16 14:45 ` fire-eyes
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