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

[junk_yard at aol.com]

 Tormod, thank you for the reply.

yes, i tried to install your driver before, but didn't notice any changes. i got it from here:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mesa-legacy/libgl1-mesa-dri-legacy_7.11.2-0ubuntu1~edgers1_i386.deb

i don't know how to handle drivers in Linux appropriately, so i just installed the package with some GUI installer and expected it would be enough. perhaps, i should have done something before and/or after the installation. can you please instruct me on that?

as for the video memory size, i bet i would even get 1024x768x24 under Windows. why else would they choose a 1024x768 panel for the machine? if it's possible in Windows, then why is it not so in Linux? but that's of course just a speculation.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: junk_yard <junk_yard at aol.com>
Cc: mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 11:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] cannot get hardware acceleration on old notebook


If you can use the r128 DRI driver, this might help you:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70813-DRI1-drivers-for-Ubuntu-12-04-%28savage-mga-r128-tdfx-sis-unichrome%29

If you need the mach64 DRI driver it is more complicated because the
mach64 DRM kernel module never got into the kernel proper and
distributions rarely shipped it, as far as I can remember. See also
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIMach64

Anyway, to use DRI you'll need enough video RAM for (number of pixels
* bytes per pixel * 3) so it won't work on 1024x768 at 16 bit. 800x600
should work though.

Cheers,
Tormod

 
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