[gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

[gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

[fire-eyes]

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.
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

[Alan McKinnon]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

[fire-eyes]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 16 October 2006 15:50, fire-eyes wrote:
> 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.

Ah, the T43. Yes, that does change everything and yes, I fully agree 
that you should not use fglrx on that machine.

Got any coding skills? Looks like you have a personal itch :-)

alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

[fire-eyes]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 15:50, fire-eyes wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ah, the T43. Yes, that does change everything and yes, I fully agree 
> that you should not use fglrx on that machine.
> 
> Got any coding skills? Looks like you have a personal itch :-)

Nope.

> alan

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