Subject: Re: ATI Rage 3D acceleration
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 20:28:58 MST
The driver entry right now is "r128" I thought this was the "rage 128"
driver. Whatever, I've replaced it with 'ati'. So how do I tell the
difference? Which is faster? Is there any benchmarking software for X? or
is there some simple thing I can time to tell the difference objectively?
-Pat
On Friday 16 November 2001 08:54, you wrote:
> >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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