[ltp] Radeon PCI works, but damn slow

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:25:30 +0100


On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 15:03:15 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:

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> switching from console to X. XV is not supported by the fglrx driver.
> You have to use e.g. mplayer -vo gl to get hardware accelerated video
> playback.

OK, I was wrong here. XV has just to be enabled in the fglrx
configuration in XF86Config-4.

> Well, 2.6.1-rc2 seems to fix some nforce-AGP stuff, maybe hardware 3d
> will work now. However, I much prefer open source drivers, at least

It does indeed work with 2.6.1-rc3 ... sometimes, sometimes not, at
least on my system.

Regards,
Tino