Subject: Re: ATI Rage 3D acceleration
From: Tom Astle (tom@pcc.com )
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 06:59:55 MST
I have the Powerbook G3 pre 1999 with the ATI Rage Pro, and Xconfigurator
gives me fbdev, it kinda slow versus Xpmac.
I tried the Xconfigurator --noprobe and selected the ati driver, afterwhich
I ran startx which dumped me out saying it didn't find the a compatible
card. Does the ati driver not support my card?
>
> >I don't seem to find "fbdev" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, only "UseFBDev" - of
> >course....
> >
> >What exactly should be replaced here, and whatcase should it be?
> >or am I looking in the wrong place?
> >
> >YDL 2.1
> >from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
> >Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Card0"
> > ### Available Driver options are:-
> > #Option "SWcursor"
> > Option "HWcursor"
> > #Option "PciRetry"
> > #Option "NoAccel"
> > #Option "ShadowFB" "true"
> > Option "UseFBDev"
> > Driver "r128"
> > BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
> >EndSection
>
> I'm guessing you used Xautoconfig4 at some point and not
> Xconfigurator to create your XF86Config-4 file. In your case, you
> would change "driver" to ati. However, IIRC Xautoconfig4 probes your
> card - if you have a Radeon card in the box, I don't think you want
> the ati driver; you're already set up for acceleration.
>
>
> Stefan Jeglinski
>
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