On Saturday 01 March 2003 08:18 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > John Haywood wrote: > > I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple > > of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, > > and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or > > if it might be a feature of 9.1: > > > > I tried the ATI driver, which has its own XFreeConfig-4 generator, and > > generates a completely useless file. > > > > It looks like it tries to use a driver called "fglrx" for 3D > > acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses > > "1:0:0" and "1:0:1" > > > > I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config file which I > > used for my previous video card, and after commenting out the > > ATI-generated stuff, inserting the Driver "fglrx" into the "Device" > > section and leaving the PCI, stuff out, instead using "AGPMode" "true", I > > get X to boot, but it seems woefully slow, (about 200 - 220 in glxgears). > > > > I see also that there are gatos drivers which might cover this card, but > > yet again, I'm at a loss as to which way forward here.... > > > > Just thinking about this, I wonder if the libGL.so.1.2 is playing nice, > > and does anyone have a clue as to how I determine which/whose version > > I've got installed > > > > ....... alternatively, of course, if anyone has upgraded to one of these > > cards (rather than a clean install), I'd really like to hear from you as > > to how you achieved all this > > > > TIA > > I don't know what your card is but it sounds like newer than mine > (7200). There is documentation about that AGPMode option that says the > value should be 1, 2, or 4. Although I don't think it will make much > difference, you can see that here: > http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html You can also find some > driver enhancement and details at that site wrt your card in 4.3. What > I thought I noticed is that there is only, so far, 2d support for the > newest Radeon (9500?) http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 One > more option might be a 3rd party commercial driver: http://www.xig.com/ > > Rolf and as far as the "two PCI address" that is most likely the two differnet screens your card migh support, nor did you mention what motherboard you use, and weither this MOBO ever had "onbaord" video
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