Subject: Re: ATI Rage 3D acceleration
From: Michael Tucker (mtucker@eecs.harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 17:54:35 MST
Hey,
I tried tunning Xconfigurator --noprobe on my beige g3 with an ATI Rage
Orion card and got the following message:
[root@mtucker X11]# Xconfigurator --noprobe
Error: option --noprobe not recognized.
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator", line 1464, in ?
sys.exit(Dexter(standalone=1)())
File "/usr/X11R6/bin/../../lib/yi/template.py", line 40, in __call__
if self.getopt(): return 1
File "/usr/X11R6/bin/../../lib/yi/template.py", line 132, in getopt
self.version()
File "/usr/X11R6/bin/../../lib/yi/template.py", line 166, in version
print self.modulename, _("version"), self.ver
AttributeError: modulename
I'm running whatever version of Xconfigurator that comes on the YDL2.0
CD. Is this --noprobe flag newer? Or am I doing something wrong?
Mike
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Tom Astle wrote:
> 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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