On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:03, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 05:17:50PM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > > I'm a total n00b when it comes to X and different cards and even > > > trying some ATI binary drivers resulted in nothing happening and I've > > > been told that the 8500 should work "out of the box". > > > > I can not give specific help with the 8500 but I am using a 9600 Pro on > > a cooker system. > > Using the vesa server at 1280x1024 at 16bps with vga=normal > > You boot the kernel with vga=normal? > > > I have attached my XF86Config-4 > > > > The drivers from ATI can be a problem in that the driver you meed to > > use is dependent upon your version of XFree And your version of glibc. > > Yeah. I'm currently trying to rebuild 4.2.1 for 9.1 since the ATI drivers > work with 4.1 and 4.2... not 4.3. > > > The r128 used to be a very well supported 3d card but with each new > > release of XFree that support has dwindled. > > I can still run it at my normal resolution but I have had to disable dri > > to prevent X from constantly freezing. > > Sounds like the same problem I was having with the r128 card that used to be > in this machine. > > With this vesa driver, are you getting a decent FPS? I'm (currently) > getting 320FPS and that really really bites.
Vincent, Go to the site http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_xv.html and take a look at what they have + gatos. They actually have drivers etc built for 4.3. On my poor little laptop (afore it died an unnatural death) I was able to get the ATI mobility chip from about 75fps to 180fps using gatos + what they have. James
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