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genix
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 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject: Hardware acceleration for my radeon 7500 mobilty... |
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| my laptop has a radeon 7500 mobilty card onboard...i am abit confused at the ati guide provided pon the website....so to get 2d support for my card i just need xfree installed rit?...if i wan the 3d acceleration, do i need to install xfree-drm or ati-driver or both?..... |
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matkare
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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hi
you have to choose between the xfree-drm or ati-driver solution.
this are the board-types that are currently supported by the ati-drivers:
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- ATI Radeon 8500 / 9100
- ATI FireGL 8700 / 8800 / E1
- ATI FireGL T2
- ATI Radeon 9000
- ATI Radeon 9200
- ATI Radeon 9500
- ATI Radeon 9600
- ATI Radeon 9700
- ATI Radeon 9800
- ATI FireGL Z1 / X1 / X2
- ATI Mobility M9
- ATI Mobility FireGL 9000
- ATI Mobility M9PLUS
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When it comes to 3d-performance i would choose the ati-drivers. In your case ati-drivers are not an option, but the xfree-drm is often a good choise because it runs pretty stable.
Some Resources:
DRI-Howto:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml
ATI FAQ:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
some general distro independent info could be found here:
http://dri.sourceforge.net |
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genix
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| since my 7500 mobilty is not listed, then i gotta use xfree-drm rit?....so basically i install xfree86 first then xfree-drm rit?.. |
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matkare
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| yepp :) !! |
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genix
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| thx |
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Ahmad
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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I have radeon 7500 mobilty like you
and its work very fine (with direct rendering)
to support direct rendering you have to upgrade to XFree 4.3.99.902-r2 (in the portage)
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opengl-update xfree
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Then to see if you have direct rendering type :
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glxinfo | grep rendering
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note : you don't need xfree-drm anymore
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