Question about Neomagic driver

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/9/07, Nolan Check <nolan.check at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > IIRC, some of the neomagic chips didn't support accel in depth 24.
> > I'm not sure if yours was included.  It could be that none of them do
> > due to lack of driver support.  Check the man page or the source.
>
> The MagicGraph 256AV is the NM2200 chipset. According to the man page:
> "All depths are accelerated except for depth 24 which is only
> accelerated on NM2200 and newer models." Now the question is, why
> doesn't 2D acceleration get enabled for me? Or maybe it is but it's
> just really slow.

check your xorg log.  It could be either really slow (24 bit was
always pretty slow on chips that old) or perhaps not enabled, or
perhaps there's a bug in the driver preventing it from being enabled.

>
> P.S. I'm new to mailing lists. Did this message get to the mailing
> list or did I just send it to you?

you just replied to me, but I re-added the ML.

Alex