Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-29 Thread Owen Savill
Hello, Thanks for all your help. I have successfully tried the Rage 128 version and the Mach64 version. The Mach64 version appears to have three problems. I don't know if you are aware of them so here they are. 1) Switching from X to a tty (CtrlAltFn) results in the X session reporting a

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-26 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 2:48 pm, Owen Savill wrote: It works :-) However, only if I login as a user, launch X, lauch a console and do an 'su' !!! Attempts to do any 3D stuff without doing this (even root) is met with : libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-26 Thread Owen Savill
True ! M$ has detected that you are trying to use DRM stuff. Just because you couldn't get us with the law for doing illegal stuff don't think we can't get you for doing perfectly legal stuff. Sounds about right I feel ! But seriously, all I had to do was add a DRI section and a mode of 0666

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-25 Thread Owen Savill
Thanks for that. I am a little less confused ! I still think GATOS is a type of French cake :-) However, I noticed from you web site it says : Cards earlier than the ATI 3D Rage Pro don't have a triangle setup engine and are not supported. This includes ... and ATI 3D Rage Mobility ?!?! what

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-25 Thread Mark Lane
At 11:07 AM 11/25/02, you wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Owen Savill wrote: Thanks for that. I am a little less confused ! I still think GATOS is a type of French cake :-) However, I noticed from you web site it says : Cards earlier than the ATI 3D Rage Pro don't have a triangle setup engine

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-25 Thread Leif Delgass
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Mark Lane wrote: At 11:07 AM 11/25/02, you wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Owen Savill wrote: Thanks for that. I am a little less confused ! I still think GATOS is a type of French cake :-) However, I noticed from you web site it says : Cards earlier than

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-25 Thread Andy Sparrow
Note that ATI 3D Rage Mobility is listed under _supported_ (there are two lists in that paragraph, the first are unsupported and the second are supported). I should make this more clear on the site, but there are cards called 3D Rage XXX, _without_ Pro in the name that have only very

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-23 Thread Leif Delgass
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Owen Savill wrote: I couldn't agree more !!! I have an ATI Rage Mobility Pro chipset. This was 3D accelerated in 3.3.6 but not in 4.0. There seems to be so many ATI drivers / modules / kernel options / ATI's own stuff that the picture for me to try and resolve if

[Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-22 Thread David Balazic
Hi! As a future ATI Radeon 8500 owner :-) I wonder about the different available drivers : - xfree86 - dri - gatos - ati.com How are they related ? Do the serve the same purpose or every one does its own part ? ( read : do I install one of them or do I combine them ? ) Is there any overlap

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-22 Thread Owen Savill
I couldn't agree more !!! I have an ATI Rage Mobility Pro chipset. This was 3D accelerated in 3.3.6 but not in 4.0. There seems to be so many ATI drivers / modules / kernel options / ATI's own stuff that the picture for me to try and resolve if any one is still looking at 3D on this chipset is