Hi Owen, Believe it or not, I still have one of those cards and the original drivers CD. Upon investigation I noted it did not seem to have any Linux drivers on it :o(, so my guess is without having the appropriate drivers to make the 3D active, you may as well put it back in your drawer or use it for an old WIN98 ancient gamer box. If I find anything more I will post it to you. Regards,
Cary Pembleton -----Original Message----- From: Owen Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:17 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Matrox M3D / PowerVR Series 1 - X Acceleration? Hi, I've recently installed Debian onto my Cobalt Qube 2. I also installed KDE (and VNC) on to it, to see how well KDE would work. As it turns out, it's not too bad at all. The other day I was going through my drawers and amongst the junk, I found a Matrox M3D card. It's a PowerVR Series 1 based board, and was used under Windows as a complimentary 3D accelerator, and has no outputs of its own. As my Qube has a spare PCI slot, I was wondering if it was possible to use the card to accelerate X / KDE and take some load off the CPU / free up some system RAM. Doing an 'lspci' gives the following information for the card... '0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: NEC Corporation PowerVR PCX2 [midas] (rev 01)' Is it possible to accelerate X with this, even slightly? I did a search of the mailing lists, but nothing turned up for any of my searches :( It would be cool if anyone can provide any advice or assistance (even if it's to put the card back in my drawer ;) Thanks, Owen Watson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 16/08/2006 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
