direct rendering with ATI 3d Rage LT Pro ? [UNSOLVED]

der_maddin · Last edited by der_maddin on Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:54 am; edited 1 time in total

I've got a Compaq Armada m300 notebook that uses an ATI 3d Rage LT Pro chip:

marting · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 64

check out:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml

your card is mach64 based, so you should use that driver, but AFAIK if you use "ati" it should be detected automatically.

der_maddin · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:54 am Post subject:

i did. and did like said there ...
emerged x11 with USE flags like described there,
tried to get the mach64 driver running,

but ran into a new error that reads like:

PCI_PRETTY_NAME not found ??

can anybody help ?
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nixnut · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
xorg->desktop stuff->moved here
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der_maddin · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject:

well, *bump*
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abaxas · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 5

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the answer is..

YES and NO

No if you want 1024x768 as you dont have enough video ram (4M)

YES if you like 800x600.

Sorry for the bad news but my m300 is my main machine and I went through all this when I 'upgraded' from winXp to gentoo. I wanted DRI but in the end it wasnt going to happen unless I wanted 800x600. I need 1024x768 so no DRI for me.

Enjoy your m300 though. Give me a PM if you need any more help with your gentoo install..

der_maddin · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

abaxas, no prob.

i do not need further gentoo installation help.
[ in fact, im using the device for about 2 years
running gentoo now ;]

but i ever wondered if it was possible to get
dri running.

so, if not, no prob.

i do not urgently need accellerated graphics...

but, it's sad :[
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fixit · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 22

What version of xorg are you using? I had trouble getting the newer DRI snapshots for mach64 working with 6.8.2. I'm using 6.9.0 now and they all work fine. You might try an older snapshot if the new ones don't work for you with 6.8.2 (like maybe one from before xorg 6.9/7.0 was released).

I used the instructions that I've seen on various threads to install with snapshots from freedesktop.org. Make sure you have insecure-drivers use flag enabled for xorg by adding "x11-base/xorg-x11 insecure-drivers" to /etc/portage/package.use. Re-emerge xorg if you didn't have it set.

Exit X and:

joolz · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 72 Location: sweden

im afraid abaxas is right. you have to run x in 800x600 if you want dri. i also have an m300. i get ~120fps in glxgears without dri, and ~160 with dri.