Subject: some YD-2.1 X-related tips
From: Carl Potter (carl@psychiatrykills.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 02:34:05 MST
I've been playing with YD-2.1 and have found some things that I hope
will enhance the experience of running this awesome distro for the rest
of you.
Thank you, Terrasoft. I bought 2.0 but I leached 2.1 off you this
time. Seeing this kind of increase in quality though, I will buy 2.2
and plenty of other YD parafanalia without a second thought when they
come out (woulda this time, but ya'know,
yada-yada-money's-tight-cuz-I-work-the-chip-industry-and-I-had-to-take-a-huge-pay-cut
etc.)
Carl
Machine: iBook rev.C 466MHz Rage128 DVD
OS: YD 2.1
Greatly improve your 2D rendering. Work this into your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Option "UseFBDev" #add this line
Driver "r128" #change the "fbdev" to "r128"
#BusID "PCI:0:16:0" <--- you can leave it commented out
(at least I can anyway)
EndSection
Accelerated 3D:
Rebuild Ben's latest kernel (2.4.14-ben0 at the moment)
configure Rage128 DRM driver as module (do the agpgart too if you like,
but don't count on using it any)
put "modprobe r128" into /etc/rc.d/rc.local (this is so XFree won't
beat you to the punch when you startx, cuz it'll help you out by loading
agpgart and then loading r128, and you don't want agpgart loaded)
uncomment the
#Load "dri"
line in your XF86Config-4
add this so you can run accel 3D when you're running X as a normal user
(you are running X as a normal user, aren't you?):
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Oh, and make sure your DefaultDepth is 16
Reboot with that kernel you made.
Run some groovy OpenGL eye-candy. Compile the latest xscreensaver (it's
gorgeous) (http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver -- I think)
Alright. Time to see if I can get some 3D games going.
Damn, this distro rocks...
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