[ltp] Accelerated 3D without fglrx

Florian Dorpmueller linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:23:34 +0000


>Hi folks,
>
>since some people here (myself included) don't like the ATI drivers for
>some very good reasons, I tried the r300 driver from r300.sf.net on my
>desktop equipped with a Radeon 9600 card. I followed the documentation
>and built X.org CVS, Mesa CVS and the r300 driver including a modified
>radeon kernel module and just collected some fishes in tuxracer. :-)
>
>There are some known problems with lookups on 9800 cards but maybe it's
>worth a try. I don't know about suspend behaviour, since I only have an
>old T23 with S3 graphics, but if there are problems, there is at least
>a chance to get them fixed since it's open source.

I also have accelerated 3D and DRI on my R51 with the radeon driver coming 
with xfree86. I compiled agpart and intel-agp into the kernel and radeon as 
a module. That was all.

Cheers,
Flori