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chrisstankevitz
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 Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: ATI Rage XL: which driver |
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I have an ATI RAGE XL. How do I configure xorg to use drivers for my ATI RAGE XL? xorg works (but very slowly) with vga driver.
Q1. What do I put for VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf?
Q2. What do I do after "emerge ati-drivers"? ("aticonfig" not exist on my system)
Q3. What do I put for Driver in xorg.conf? Currently it reads vga which is slow.
Thank you for answering my three questions!
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JCdemay
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Q1. r128
Q2. don't use ati-drivers, opensource drivers will perform better with these old cards (up to radeon 9250)
Q3. r128
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ksp7498
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think it uses the rage 128 driver. As far as I am aware the rage xl uses the mach64 driver. I have a rage xl card here in my server but I've never run X on it before...I can try it out, though, and see which one works. I'm almost positive it uses the mach64 driver, though.
EDIT: is it an 8mb card like mine is? Keep in mind that if you want DRI to work on an 8mb card you'll probably have to use 16-bit color depth, unless you're at a very low resolution. So if you're having trouble with DRI give that a shot.
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chrisstankevitz
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Thanks for your help everyone. Here is what I found:
1. Adding "mach64" to VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf gave me these drivers:
| Code: | chris@quinn ~ $ find /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers -ctime -1 -name \*.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/r128_drv.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so |
2. Only the ATI driver worked
| Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
# Driver "vga"
# Driver "vesa"
# Comments about how well the driver works are for the ATI Rage XL
# 8MB card which is on the Dell 1600SC motherboard.
# Driver "mach64" # does not exist
Driver "ati" # works well
# Driver "atimisc" # does not work
# Driver "r128" # does not work
# Driver "radeon" # does not work
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3. I believe I have the ATI Rage XL 8MB. I definately have a Dell 1600SC with onboard video card. Is ther a "cat /proc/videocard" command I can use to confirm?
Thanks for your help everyone,
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ksp7498
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Out of curiosity, does DRI work with the rage xl? I've never tried to use it on mine (since the box is generally console-only) but I've always wondered what kind of acceleration it is capable of providing. Naturally, being an 8mb card the highest it could really go with DRI enabled would be 1024x768@16-bit or so, but I'm still curious.
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