Maybe someone can explain the differences b/w the different X servers (i.e Xpmac vs XF68_FBDev) and what is needed to get stable accelerated X support? urls will be welcomed as well.
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Hugh Caley wrote: > Also as an FYI, Xpmac_mga works fine to accelerate my preset PB G3 (Lombard), > and it also worked fine with my old Wallstreet machine. In fact, even when I > "hacked" the atyfb driver and got it to work on my Wallstreet, it still killed > some applications when I was using 32-bit color. Never had that problem with > Xpmac_mga at all. > > So, even though I'm using the BootX "No Video Driver" option, I'm still > getting > accelerated X. > > Hugh > > bigj wrote: > > > > > XF86_FBDev accellerated? Or just I should give parameter in XF86Config > > > > and/or BootX and/or fbset ? (I'm really new to Mac hardware :) > > > > > > You must use atyfb to get acceleration on ATI Mach64. > > > > > > > Geert et al, > > The problem is not as simple. The G3 laptops have a different kind of > > video chip then other ATI based machines. On my laptop the chip is > > /pci/ATY,264LT-G and even though I use fb0: (after adding my chip_id to > > the atyfb.c) I still don't get any acceleration with X. Now if memory > > serves me right the card was an ATI Rage with 2D and 3D acceleration. > > I'm using XF86_FBDEV_pm2_4 with no luck as well. > > I'll be happy to give anyone an account on the laptop for some hacking. > > > > Jambi. > > --This message was never sent. > > http://scw.ucsd.edu/~bigj > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jambi. --This message was never sent. http://scw.ucsd.edu/~bigj
