On Die, 2002-10-22 at 08:15, Kacper Wysocki wrote: > > From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > super-slow! What gives? I did have trouble loading glx earlier, but > > I > > > traced this problem to my enabling of the radeon framebuffer device > > in > > > the kernel. > > > > Huh? Must have been something else. > > No, I'm pretty sure that's it. I tried different versions of XF86 > (admittedly, never cvs), but glx would not load. Recall a post Sep 30th > where I was fretting about the fact, upon which I got a reply saying my > libglx.so was out of date (Aitchison & Bruno). This might have been > true at the time, but after reinstalling XF86 things were still looking > glum, until it occured to me that it might be the fbdev. Mind you, I > had similar problems with an nvidia card about a year ago. I disabled > the radeon fbdev, and the glx loads.
Must be something else, there's no relation whatsoever between the two that I can think of. Note that the XFree86 glx module is called libglx.a and isn't equivalent to hardware acceleration. > > > Now glx loads, but performance is still crap. > > > > 3D acceleration is only supported for the 8500 in DRI CVS yet. As > > you're > > running Debian, http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/README.Debian > > should be interesting to you. > > It doesn't work. I tried the debian-packaged snapshots and the x-server > refuses to load, giving a signal 11. Weird, there have been problems with the daily snapshots, but I haven't gotten any such reports about my Debian packages before. Please provide logs, config files etc. > When I try regylar sid xf packages (4.2.1-3) I immediately need to do a > hard reset. Only thing that works for me are the binaries. What binaries exactly? > > > * Video/dvd playback with mplayer and xine is good, but only with > > This should be fixed in current XFree86 and DRI CVS. > > > That seems to be normal when trying to run dualhead with GATOS > > drivers. > > Are you saying the GATOS driver does not work with the dual output of > the Radeon? The people on the gatos-devel list didn't seem to be able > to confirm this. There have been several reports of crashes when running with dualhead by Mandrake users; one prominent feature of Mandrake is that they merge GATOS code into their XFree86 packages, but maybe they just do it badly. > > Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) > > developer > Hardly on topic, but I wonder, since you are a Debian/powerpc > developer: what are my chances at getting a pc radeon card to work in a > apple macintosh? It will probably only work if you re-flash it with an OF ROM. I think people have done this. > What about a GeForce 3 Ti? (I've looked into the > matter and it seems the mac firmware does not exist) You'd be lucky to get decent 2D acceleration going for that, no 3D. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
