> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: Mandrake Expert
> Subject: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration
>
>
> I recently replaced my Matrox Mystique 220 and VoodooII card
> with an ATI
> Radeon 32MB DDR AGP card. It appears to be setup properly (X
> works fine, I
> have nice screen resolution, bootup messages indicate the Radeon is
> recognized) but I don't seem to get hardware opengl acceleration.
>
> I have Mesa-3.4.1 installed on a nearly MD 8.0beta system. I have
> XFree86-4.0.2 and kernel-2.4.1. I also have the game
> "Terminus" which is
> supposed to support ATI video cards in linux including the
> Radeon. When I
> start it, it uses software opengl rendering. If I use the
> Mesa demos, they
> are all software rendered too (shouldn't they BE ABLE to use
> hardware?).
>
> I guess I need to know , 1) how do I confirm whether or not
> DRI is enabled in
> XFree? Bootup indicates "acceleration enabled" which I have
> taken to mean
> hardware acceleration is enabled, and 2) how do I get
> hardware true hardware
> acceleration with my Radeon?
>
At the moment 3d hardware acceleration is not supported with the Readon
except for "experimental" in the 8.0b using X 4.0.2 and the 2.4.2 kernel.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
