Subject: Re: Video Acceleration on B/W G3
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 00:11:24 MST
Mike Beattie's bits of Sat, 11 Mar 2000 translated to:
>Just the other day I upgraded to CS 1.2, and I was hoping that in this
>version there would be a video driver built in that would support
>acceleration on my B/W G3's Rage 128 card. Is there?
>
>I was able to pull a "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:32" kernel argument
>from Reid Ellis' YDL FAQ, but I have been unsuccessful configuring X with
>that argument in place. When I run Xconfigurator, I receive an error that
>the test of X had failed.
After Xconfigurator said the test failed, did you try doing a startx
anyhow? Xconfigurator always says it fails on my PowerBook, but it
actually writes a config file that does work.
Jim
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