From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZMbv-0003Qh-2g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:10:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9G781Na017374; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:08:01 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9G75Vj4023235 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:05:32 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B18E83435 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:09:52 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3fNQk1tpqKHW for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:09:48 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E54983433 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:09:48 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:07:21 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <4532B005.8040204@fire-eyes.org> In-Reply-To: <4532B005.8040204@fire-eyes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610160906.29634.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Oct 2006 07:07:21.0156 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9332840:01C6F0F1] X-Archives-Salt: 1300ae7c-f902-4f7e-98fb-239625d2f39f X-Archives-Hash: ec8b59378987cc3d53f9e69265ecffdf 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list