RE: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

You can check to see if DRI is enabled in Xfree86 by checking your Xfree86
config file. You should have a line that states:
Load    "DRI"
However, I do not know if the radeon is currently supported for DRI. Sorry
in that respect. Best of luck!

NeoFax


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Sunday, March 18, 2001 1:47 PM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        RE: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration



 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: Mandrake Expert
> Subject: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration
> 
> 
> I recently replaced my Matrox Mystique 220 and VoodooII card 
> with an ATI 
> Radeon 32MB DDR AGP card.  It appears to be setup properly (X 
> works fine, I 
> have nice screen resolution, bootup messages indicate the Radeon is 
> recognized) but I don't seem to get hardware opengl acceleration.
> 
> I have Mesa-3.4.1 installed on a nearly MD 8.0beta system.  I have 
> XFree86-4.0.2 and kernel-2.4.1.  I also have the game 
> "Terminus" which is 
> supposed to support ATI video cards in linux including the 
> Radeon.  When I 
> start it, it uses software opengl rendering.  If I use the 
> Mesa demos, they 
> are all software rendered too (shouldn't they BE ABLE to use 
> hardware?).
> 
> I guess I need to know , 1) how do I confirm whether or not 
> DRI is enabled in 
> XFree?  Bootup indicates "acceleration enabled" which I have 
> taken to mean 
> hardware acceleration is enabled, and 2) how do I get 
> hardware true hardware 
> acceleration with my Radeon?
> 
 
At the moment  3d hardware acceleration is not supported with the Readon
except for "experimental" in the 8.0b using X 4.0.2 and the 2.4.2 kernel.

   Charles  (-:

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