On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 04:27, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 21:08, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 02:55, Csan wrote: > > > > > > > > is there any chance for gatos deb's for i386 and powerpc? > > > > > > > What do you need it for? If it's about Mach64, try > > > > > > > deb http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/debian/dri-mach64/ ./ > > > > > > I would need 2d acceleration for my ATI Radeon 7200 (VIVO 64MB DDR) very > > > bad. > > > I'd like to dive myself into Quake 3 mapping with GTKRadiant map editor, > > > but I > > > can't since the ati driver shipped with the current xserver, does not > > > contains > > > any 2d acceleration... > > > > > > Are there any plans for integrating gatos 2d aacceleration into the xfree6 > > > project's next debian release. > > > > GATOS doesn't do 2D acceleration AFAIK, don't you mean 3D anyway? > > > > Either way, try > > > > deb http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/debian/dri-trunk/ ./ > > I upgraded recently to these deb on my radeon 7000 system. Now after > upgrade XF86 no longer comes up automatically
You mean with a display manager? Beware that these debs are missing the XdmAuth code which xdm and others use by default; at least xdm can be set up to work without it though. > and I cannot start it with startx as a normal user, though root can. > xinit does bring up XF86 though. When using startx the x server fails > silently with out any errors or warnings. I also cannot find a > difference in the log files between startx as a normal user and startx > as root. Weird. I haven't had any problems like that so without more information I can't really do anything. > I also have noticed a slow down in the system as a whole. Can you be more specific? At least the operation of the X server should definitely become faster or in the worst case stay the same... > Maybe someone could tell me how to simply remove these debs and replace > them with Branden's(which work wonderfully without any problems on this > system). sudo apt-get remove xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk xlibmesa3+ -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast