On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:02:09AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2004 22:16, Pigeon wrote: > > I have an ATI Radeon 7500 AGP 64M card (not on this system) which gives me > > around 775fps in glxgears, using a woody backport of X 4.3. Not quite the > > same, but the basic principles are (from memory): > > > > - Set the kernel up right. Under "Character devices" in make menuconfig > > enable "/dev/agpgart (AGP Support)" for your motherboard's chipset. Then go > > down a bit to "Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)" and enable > > that with "ATI Rage 128 support". > > > > - Tell X to use the correct driver. I think it's called "ati" for your > > card, but check that (see xf86config). > > I haven't the foggiest on how to accomplish this. I tried on shell dialog > dpkgconfig of xf86config but aborted it when I could no longer answer its > question. Never got to any direct-rendoring support. It is included here > somewhere along the line but it might be easier to edit the config file it > produces and leave everything else alone.
What questions are you having difficulty with? (BTW, the bits I mention about AGP and DRI support etc. are in the kernel configuration, not xf86config.) > This is the output of an /usr/sbin/mkxf86config command (no man page > available): > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mkxf86config > Video is Mach64 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X, using XFree86(ati) Server > Monitor is MAG5779, H:30-70kHz, V:50-120Hz > Using Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > This was set up to simply ATI by Knoppix and I entered more details from > Knoppix configuration dialogs. I am running at 1024x768, 70mhz. Actaully, the > monitor is a MAG XJ500T. I entered this as well. Makes little difference. > > This script may have other goodies in it but is hard to read. Text "DRI", > "Rendering", etc., are not found there. packages.debian.org doesn't know anything about mkxf86config. Is that a Knoppixism? Some further suggestions: - You may find it easier to edit XF86Config[-4] by hand. There was a thread a day or two ago entitled "Help with AGP and 3D acceleration for Radeon 7000" with the appropriate entries in it; just use "ati" instead of "radeon". - For the kernel modules: I see from other posts you've made that you've tried to install a newer kernel image and it won't boot. Not quite sure which version you're trying to install, and I don't use lilo so I'm not au fait with its errors, but there was a posting today entitled simply "kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686" which makes me suspect that the package may be broken. You might be better off installing the kernel *source* package and building it yourself; there are instructions at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg/index-kernel-pkg.html.en One point: to make sure you start off with all the config settings for your current kernel still enabled, before you configure the new kernel, copy the /boot/config-whatever for your current kernel into /usr/src/linux, run "make oldconfig" and just press return at all its questions. Then, before starting X with the new kernel, "modprobe agpgart" and "modprobe r128" (in that order). (If I was on the system with the ATI card and not 100 miles away from it, I'd (a) be more definite and (b) post my configs...) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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