Frame buffer drivers for ATI Rage Mobility P/M

[David Bronaugh]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>On Friday 05 November 2004 22:36, Alex Deucher wrote:
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>>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:
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>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.
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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?