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 1GZSxs-0004Dz-CN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:57:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9GDrW4t028032; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:53:32 GMT Received: from fire-eyes.org (adsl-68-250-9-164.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [68.250.9.164]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9GDo7uX028676 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:50:08 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=[0.0.0.0]) by fire-eyes.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZSr1-0001vz-63 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:50:07 -0400 Message-ID: <45338E0E.7000306@fire-eyes.org> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:50:06 -0400 From: fire-eyes User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060927) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]) References: <4532B005.8040204@fire-eyes.org> <200610160906.29634.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200610160906.29634.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "fire-eyes", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: 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 [...] Content analysis details: (-1.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP X-Archives-Salt: 2c34608f-e723-4ac0-ab3d-d7b0b350bf77 X-Archives-Hash: 14dfc355d743c99438d22af58d4d4924 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 :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list