[Mesa-users] cannot get hardware acceleration on old notebook

[junk_yard at aol.com]

Brian, thank you for the reply.

i'm trying to follow instructions from this guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=e456f2090f15d163f0f05b59349349b4&p=29080&postcount=1

am i going in the right direction?

by the way:

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)



 
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
To: junk_yard <junk_yard at aol.com>
Cc: mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 8:09 pm
Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] cannot get hardware acceleration on old notebook


Your laptop is pretty old and googling I found that it has an ATI RAGE 
GPU (though the info above says MACH64RM).  I think you'd need the old 
Mesa mach64 or r128 driver.  Those drivers were removed from Mesa 
after the 7.11 release, about a year ago (and even then probably 
haven't been tested in years).

So you'd have to build/install an old Mesa release (and maybe some old 
drm/kernel drivers too).  But since that's old code, it's hard to say 
what problems you might run into.

-Brian

 
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