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From: fire-eyes <sgtphou@fire-eyes.org>
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 09:50:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45338E0E.7000306@fire-eyes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610160906.29634.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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

Using a IBM (yes, it says IBM on it ;p) Thinkpad T43. As for the closed 
drivers, I have zero intentions of touching them again anytime soon, 
those things regularly lock my system up so hard i've had severe 
filesystem damage. I have heard the same from more than one thinkpad T43 
owner unfortunately, it's just not worth the hassle.

Thanks for the reply :)
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-16 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2006-10-16 13:50   ` fire-eyes [this message]
2006-10-16 14:35     ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-16 14:45       ` fire-eyes

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