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[ILUG] hardware accel - radeon 9000

[ILUG] hardware accel - radeon 9000

Dermot McGahon dermot at dspsrv.com
Fri May 21 09:32:11 IST 2004


On Fri, 21 May 2004 09:13:54 +0100, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:

>> Why framebuffer?
>>
> because in most cases, the config tells me that if I'm not sure what  
> something is, it's safe to choose "Y"  or "M". I'm not sure what a frame  
> buffer is for.
>
> I'll try it without it.

It's probably not doing any harm.


> because my motherboard uses a Via chipset

False alarm. You definitely need this.

"This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of
  XFree86 4.x on VIA MPV3/Apollo Pro chipsets.

  You should say Y here if you use XFree86 3.3.6 or 4.x and want to
  use GLX or DRI. If unsure, say N."



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