Subject: Re: No dri w/Rage Orion
From: Robert Serphillips (rserphillips@austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 16:53:37 MST
Glad I could help. I was having the same problems for the longest time until I switched to 16 bit. Then all of a sudden it just worked ( well sort of).I believe ATI Rage 128 based cards are only supported in 4.1 or better. Although Xv works in 4.0 the colors were always off but the acceleration was there. Go check out the Xfree home page it will tell you what additions have been made to the r128 driver. http://xfree86.org/4.2.0/r128.html
So your having problems with dvd playback because of X. Does your dvd software support Xv? What package are you using, xine? mplayer? vlc :( ? If you using Xshm then play back will have no acceleration. And read my post about above about the Xv Dri bug in 4.2. If your trying to watch dvd's you'll most certainly want to be aware of this.
-Rob
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:54:52 +0000 (GMT)
Tim ODriscoll <tim@StokePogesWay.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Michael J Flaherty wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 March 2002 06:12, you wrote:
> > > You also need to make sure you have you Defualt screen res to 16 bits.
> > > Switch to init 3 (as root) and change your X config file to read
> > >
> > > Section "Screen"
> > >
> > > Identifier "Screen0"
> > > Device "Card0"
> > > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > > DefaultDepth 16
> > > SubSection "Display"
> > > .
> >
> > That was it. Working well now, direct rendering enabled. Thanks again
> > Robert....and everyone else.
> >
> That did it for me, too :) .. I'd been getting nowhere with my config
> file, but that seems to have done it for me.
>
> Can I ask what version of XFree86 people using the Rage128 are using? I
> was under the impression that the PPC's video bios was different to x86's
> and hence support had only been introduced in XF4.2. Or perhaps the
> 'Option UseFBDev' line in the config file works around this..
>
> I'm running the stock YDL2.1 (XF4.1.0-3d) and was thinking of upgrading to 4.2 to get my DVD's
> working properly, but that seems pretty pointless now :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
> (G4 Cube, w/Rage 128)
>
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