[ltp] 3D acceleration on A30

[Tino Keitel]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 14:41:56 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> i tried to get 3D acceleration working on my A30 (ATI Radeon M6 LY). I
> use a 2.4.20 kernel and XFree86 4.2.1 on my Debian Woody system, but
> the XFree86.0.log says "Direct rendering disabled". I also tried the
> gatos driver and the related drm modules, but nothing changes. Any
> ideas? According to Google, the Radeon M6 LY should work with 2.4.20
> and XFree86 4.2.0, but if I look into the log file, the Xserver doesn't
> even cares about drm.
> 
> ls /proc/dri
> 0
> 
> dmesg | grep -i "drm"
> [drm] Initialized radeon 1.2.0 20011231 on minor 0
> 
> Any ideas?

I solved the problem. 3D acceleration only works in 16 bit colour
depth. There is too few graphics memory (16 MB) installed to make
acceleration work at 1400x1050 and 24 bit.