REQUEST HOWTO: ATi IGP 320M/340M

gamehack · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 59

Hello people,

I see in the forum there are many post about this but it is not collected into one place and so it is hardly to find what you need. I have a IGP340M and I am with 2.4.26 and XFree86 and want to have 2D and optionally 3D acceleration. So my appeal is such a HOWTO to be written.

Thanks

avendesora · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject:

Very nice idea. Why don't you go ahead and create a first version, and post it here so it'll get feedback? If can probably be moved to "Docs, Tips & Tricks" once it's all good, or some other doc. location.

gamehack · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 59

The problem is that I am new to gentoo and I am as advanced as others here in the forum which have the same card

If I could write the HOWTO, I would...unfortunately I cannot

cwt137 · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 2:14 am Post subject: My Little HOWTO

This is my little howto on getting my 320m igp (on my compaq presario 2195us) to work with dri:

1. Make sure you are running a fairly recent kernel (2.6.5 or newer. 2.6.4 might work) that has the radeon/ati agp and drm stuff compiled in.

2. emerge xfree or x.org and get it working with the 2d radeon driver.

3. download one of the daily radeon dri snapshots from here. Then unpack it and compile it using the sh script included. Make sure when you compile the dri, x is not running (so boot using init 3 and no xdm).

4. start x windows and run tuxracer to see the difference!!

I didn't emerge any of the ati drivers or dri packages, or any of that stupid stuff. I just emerged x and compiled the dri drivers from http://dri.sf.net. Only recent snapshots (like the last 2 months or so, i think) enable 3d accel. The next release of x.org should have an updated snapshot of the dri tree so we won't have to have to compile the driver. I tested this setup with Gentoo (2.6.5-mm? and xfree 4.4) and Fedora Core 2. I get about 330 fps with my mobile athlon xp 2500+

I hope you guys find this guide a help.

gamehack · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 59

So with the 2.4.x we cannot enjoy 2d or 3d accel ?

cwt137 · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:02 pm Post subject:

I don't know the answer to that. But lets just say your chances of getting 3d accel working increase a lot when using a recent 2.6 kernel.

look at:
http://rzr.online.fr/docs/comp/gfxcard.htm

http://www.consultmatt.co.uk/nx9005/radeon-igp/index.php

for some help with 2.4 kernel. If I were you, I would go to 2.6 so you don't have to patch a whole bunch of stuff.

coderpourmanger

I have XFree 4.3.0-r5 running with my 2.4.25-r1 kernel. My video card is an ATI Radeon Mobility 340M. With XFree I get 240-270 fps on glxgears. I tried replacing XFree with Xorg and only got 170-175 fps.

I tried using the Radeon driver, but it would only work with 8 bit color. I am using the Vesa driver now because I have no better ideas.

Has anyone gotten DRM to work with a 2.4 series kernel and ATI IGP 340M card?

BTW, I have a dialup connection so my download time sux.

lspci: