On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:11, b.n. wrote: > > I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI > > Radeon 9200se card with the following options: > > I have the same card, but I don't have the problems you are having > > > > [...] > > Section "Device" > > > > #VideoRam 131072 > > # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate > > Identifier "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]" > > Driver "radeon" > > That's the open source driver, you get 2D acceleration, but not 3D. > For 3D you need to emerge ati-drivers and use the fglrx driver
actually the open source radeon driver support for 3D is getting better all the time! As of x11-base/x11-drm-20060608 there is support for the 9600 (RV350 based) which there never was before. In fact, x11-drm gives me FASTER frame rates that fglrx 8.29.6!! That's right, FASTER! *woot* anyway, I'm off to try composite :) -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
