Subject: Re: ATI Rage 3D acceleration
From: Mark Brethen (marbre@dhcp-159-66)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 21:43:48 MST
On Friday 16 November 2001 01:07, you wrote:
Another question for the group. What is an XFree86 DRI (direct rendering
infrastructure) driver? I know they have something to do with openGL. How do
I tell if the drivers are installed and working?
> Hi Mark,
>
> By default we install the "fbdev" XFree86 driver.
> This is more reliable for most hardware, but has slower
> performance. I'd rather have people in X after install
> first rather then worrying about getting the most optimized
> setup right after the install (granted that is ideal).
>
> So, to change to use the ATI specific driver, which should have
> improvements, backup your existing XFree86 Config file:
>
> 1) cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.fbdev
>
> then run:
>
> 2) Xconfigurator --noprobe
>
> this will tell Xconfigurator not to use fbdev (which is what it will
> automatically setup for you) and will instead present a list of available
> drivers. Select the ATI driver and continue with the rest of Xconfigurator.
>
> That's all there is to it!
>
> -Dan
>
> > Is the ati rage 3D acceleration supported (Mach 64) in linux? How do I
> > set it up? I'm running YDL 2.1 on a beige G3. Are there any websites that
> > have info on this?
> >
> > Thanks
--Mark Brethen mbrethen@rochester.rr.com
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