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

[Brian Paul]

I've never seen those instructions before but they're probably as good 
as any.  I haven't touched mach64 hardware in 10 years or so.

-Brian

On 10/05/2012 12:45 PM, junk_yard at aol.com wrote:
> 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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