[Dri-users] Re: DRI, GL support, and an ATI Rage Mobility chipset...

[Smitty <sm...@wa...>]

> I have been trawling though pages of outdated and conflicting
> information for days to try and get 3D acceleration working on my
> laptop under linux, and have gotten nowhere.
> 
> Doing 'lspci' tells me I have a:
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility
> P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
> 
> ...which doesn't really help me figure out which driver I should be
> looking out for when I'm looking for supported hardware. I have seen
> posts in places from people that suggest I cannot get 3D acceleration
> from my card, others that suggest I use the rage 128 driver, others the
> radeon drivers, and some the Mach64 drivers. I'm confused.
The reason you're confused is that ATI has more than one chipset that made
it into their Rage cards. AFAIK its either a Mach64 or a R128, not a
radeon. Contacting ATI would get you a definite answer.  
 
> I have XFree86 4.2.0, and my XF86Config has entries for loading gl
> components and dri. I've also noted in the kernel configuration that
> there are two ATI cards under DRI support that compile to two modules -
> namely r128 and radeon.
I don't mess around with my kernel very often as I always seem to mess up
the modules when I do. <g>
 
> I set up my laptop a long time ago so I could watch DVD's properly, by
> taking the drivers from the GATOS project, but these don't seem to
> cover DRI or whatever.
GATOS provides tv drivers (something like that)
 
> Have I missed something really obvious, either in drivers terms or in
> that DRI and 3D acceleration are really not related in the slightest
> and I'm looking for nothing...??? Should my card be supported? So many
> places to look for patches, so many places to apply them, so many ways
> to miss something or screw something up beyond recognition ... Can
> anybody just point me in the correct direction?
DRI provides 3D accelerated drivers.

btw http://dri.sf.net 

Liam
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