> -----Original Message----- > From: Slaven Peles > Sent: dinsdag 28 augustus 2001 6:50 > To: Rogério Brito; debian > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension... > > > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > > > Make sure what chipset your video card use. Some of Rage Mobility > > > cards use Mach64 in which case there is no help; there is > no render > > > support for these. > > > > Uh, oh! > > > > I guess that mine is one of those. Mine is an ATI Rage > > Mobility LT, with only 4MB of RAM and, AFAIK, this is a > > Mach64. :-( > > > > Is it not possible to implement the RENDER extension with this > > hardware or isn't there demand for it? I'd surely love to get > > my notebook working with one of these. > > > > This is one of the things that aren't so good with portables: > > they aren't as expansible as their desktop counterparts. :-( > > > > > > []s, Roger... > > Nowhere at XFree86 web site is explicitely said that there is > no DRI support > or render extension for Mach64 based video cards, but > apparently they are not > supported. It seems that nobody is willing to make a driver > for these cards, > so we can either try to do it ourselves, or just live without > those goodies > :-(. Oh, yes, we can also ask ATI to release Linux drivers > for Mach64 cards. > > Slaven
Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine with an Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the RENDER extension. Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to be support for it (atleast, i never got it work), but now RENDER simply works. Not that I use it though... because when i turn on anitaliasing in KDE only the ugliest fonts seem to be available to all X applications. I'd rather have everything in a good font (lucida, helvetica) than have to look at an ugly one that is antialiased.