On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 05:36:02 -0300 "Paulo R. Dallan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 04:43, you wrote: > > Paulo R. Dallan schrieb: > > <snip> > > > The radeon driver is a hardware-accelerated driver for Radeon 7500 > > chips. I don't know why it even works on your card. I think Philip is talking about the 3D drivers. There are different ones for radeon (Radeon 7x00) and r200 (Radeon 8500, 9[0-2]00). The radeon 2D driver in the Xserver works for all Radeons from 7000 to 9800. > > > > Philipp > > Hi Philipp, thanks for the reply! > > Are you sure about that? > > I've just tried the "ati" generic driver (option from xorgconfig) and the > speed got even slower (however, glxinfo also gave me direct rendering: yes!). > > Actually, I got a little confused over here. > > In the dri/wiki, under the building description, it is described that the > "ati" is the 2D driver for the Mach64, Rage128 and Radeon chipsets (so I > assume the Radeon 9200se is included here; or is it not?). However, the > options at xorgconfig that I could find are: (a) generic "ati"; (b) generic > "r128" (which I believe it is the Rage128); and (c) generic "radeon" (which > was my first option)... > > So, do you know which I should choose? Choose "ati" or "radeon". "ati" should load the "radeon" driver automatically after detecting your card. > > It is interesting to mention that at the ATI Radeon dri/wiki page, when > mentioning 3D acceleration, it explains that from the 7800/rv200 and below > are supported by the "radeon" dri driver, and that from the 8500 to 9200 are > supported by the "r200" driver (in any case, they seem to use the same drm > driver, radeon.ko, if not mistaken); > > So ok, but what would be the option for the "r200" dri driver at xorgconfig? > Or should I enter it as a parameter directly at xorg.conf? Or is it > automatically detected, after the chipset is recognised? xorgconfig selects the 2D driver. The 2D driver tells libGL which 3D driver to use. The radeon 2D driver "knows" that your card needs the r200 3D driver. So as long as you compiled and installed the r200 3D driver (in the Mesa tree) you're fine. Also note that there is a single radeon.ko DRM kernel driver for all Radeons. Best, Felix | Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fxk.de.vu | | PGP Fingerprint: 6A3C 9566 5B30 DDED 73C3 B152 151C 5CC1 D888 E595 | ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
