Subject: Re: 3D Hardware acceleration support
From: Dan Brown (dbbrown@foundryinc.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 17:09:22 MST
Thank you for your response. However, I do not know what the acronyms
DRI/DRM mean, could you enlighten me?
Thanks,
- Dan
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:48:25PM -0500, Dan Brown wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me if such support exists for yellowdog? The dual
> >processor G4, I own, has an ATI Rage 128 Pro and could have an ATI
> >RADEON processor. I was told that 3D hardware acceleration support did
> >not exist in PPC Linux. Is this true? If so, is there planned support?
>
> Most of us at the office are really interested in getting accelerated 3D
> into YDL, however there is still some problems with the DRI/DRM and the
> AGP gart stuff on PPC Linux. I'm hoping to have some more time before we
> finish YDL 2.0 to look into this deeper, but I can't make any promises
> on whether or not it'll be ready in time for our next release.
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