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[ILUG] hardware accel - radeon 9000

[ILUG] hardware accel - radeon 9000

Stephane Dudzinski stephane at cp.dias.ie
Wed May 19 22:17:07 IST 2004


Kae Verens said:
> Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
>> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:45, Kae Verens wrote:
>>
>>>Any ideas what else to look for?
>>
>>
>> Since you love sources, go x.org instead, its license is a bit more
>> open. Sources here : http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/src/
>>
>> Last time i checked some radeon acceleration was borked in 2.6.x, but it
>> could have changed unless you have one of those brand new machines with
>> yet another brand new rev of the ATI 9000.
>
> I can't even get it working in XFree86, which is a supposedly mature
> system. I believe I'd have much less success in x.org.
>
> I've narrowed it down specifically to GLX. DRI initialises correctly now.

I bet you tried either the official drivers :
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=4&submit.y=4&submit=GO%21

or Gatos ?
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php

Steph
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