On Fre, 2002-10-11 at 11:00, Kacper Wysocki wrote: > after following this list for a couple of weeks I have gotten nowhere > trying to acheive decent acceleration for my ATI Radeon QL (8500 > 128mb), and it doesn't seem many others have, either. > This is Status Quo: > > * The resident XF86 'ati' driver works, gives a display etc (I have a > perfectly working dual-head setup, if anyone is interested: a note > about this in the postscript), but I have yet to acheive anything but > software 3d and choppy window movement. Even xscreensaver runs > 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. > 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. > * Video/dvd playback with mplayer and xine is good, but only with the > rootmode direct-to-card vidix extention. Xv modes load, but give > nothing, sometimes distorted greens, sometimes a blue band, sometimes a > very thin sliver of the playing video is visible in the window. This should be fixed in current XFree86 and DRI CVS. > * The GATOS project and their ati.2 driver: I have for some reason not > gotten anywhere with this driver. If I install it, X just plain refuses > to load. No log, no nothing except a 'signal 11', and an occational > curruption of my XF86Config-4, if I'm running as root. I recently > posted to the gatos-devel forum, and it's too early to expect a reply. That seems to be normal when trying to run dualhead with GATOS drivers. > * Hard resets: Over the past weeks I've installed the XF86 4.2.0 > binaries, updated to 4.2.1, used woody deb packages (4.1.x), installed > gatos drivers etc etc and I am no longer sure what cominations of which > results in the computer _hard resetting_ when I start x |not in root|. > This has usually happened after either updating to 4.2.1 or using gatos > ati.2. I will try to experiment further, although I don't like it at > all- my harddrive filesystems don't like it at all. Debian sid just > updated their packages to 4.2.1-1 and things seem to be working. The DRM from GATOS is incompatible to the DRM from XFree86 or DRI; after you've used the first, you can't use the others until a reboot. -- 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
