Re: [Plib-users] ATI Card and MESA

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Simon Foster wrote:
> 
> Sorry to ask a question not exactly about plib, but
> I've tried everywhere else and they can't help. How do
> I use my ATI Rage 128 (ATI Rage Fury Pro VIVO) card
> with Mesa, currently it will only do so s/w rendering
> which is too slow...

Well, I'm not clear whether it's supported or not -
http://www.mesa3d.org is the place to check - and a
swift 30 second reconnaisance mission turned up this
info:

1) You need to look at the Utah GLX project:

     http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/

   Utah GLX support "Rage Pro" but NOT "Rage 128" - it's
   not clear from your post which you have since you mention
   both "128" and "Pro".

2) ...or the Precision Insight DRI project:

     http://dri.sourceforge.net

   Who claim to support:

     * ATI Rage 128 
       +  Rage Fury AGP 
       +    Rage Magnum AGP 
       +    XPERT 2000 AGP 
       +    XPERT 128 AGP 
       +    XPERT 99 AGP 
       +    All-in-Wonder 128 AGP 
       The PCI versions of these cards also have minimal
       support. Note that there are also Rage 128 Pro based
       boards on the market, and these are not yet
       supported. 

...so is your's a "Rage 128", a "Rage Fury AGP", a "Rage Pro", a "Rage Fury Pro"
or a "Rage 128 Pro" ??  What do they mean by "Minimal" support?  It's not all
that clear!

I wish ATI would name each machine a little more clearly without using '128', 'Pro'
and 'Fury' in random combinations!

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