Frame buffer drivers for ATI Rage Mobility P/M

[David Harel]

Thanks for your reply, the discussion is very fertile.

I need more help though.

   1. What parameter in the Kernel should I set (and where is it in the
      menuconfig)?
   2. Where do I get the Mach64 drivers?
   3. How to install the drivers (until now I tried to copy the files
      *_drv.o to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers  and *_dri.so to
      same/dri. Is that OK?)?
   4. How can I check if I installed them correctly?
   5. What definitions do I have to do in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (As I
      noticed the most important one is "Driver" in the "Device"
      section. Are there other important ones)?



David Bronaugh wrote:

> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> On Friday 05 November 2004 22:36, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> ati's driver only support radeon 8500 and above chips.  Your chip is
>>> mach64 based.  you need to remove the ati driers and install a mach64
>>> DRI snapshot:
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I don't think that is true.
>> It is clear from the source that the ati driver is meant to support
>> both Rage Mobility and Radeon.
>> I have it running on a Sony Picturebook (C1VFK)
>> with a Rage Mobility video system.
>> This is also the drvier you get if you run
>> any kind of configuration program,
>> eg X --configure or system-configure-display.
>>  
>>
> You're talking 2D, he's talking 3D.
>
> In order to use the Mach64, you need an X server which includes the 
> Mach64 DRI stuff, and you need the Mach64 DRM kernel module loaded. 
> Without those, you will -not- get 3D accel. 2D will work great, but 3D 
> -- forget it.
>
> David Bronaugh
> ps: that was pretty condescending. Tone it down a bit, OK?
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Thanks.

David Harel,

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