[ltp] R51 gfx 3D acceleration?

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 14:59:02 +0100, Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote:
> > Anyone got an IBM R51 with the ATI Mobility 9000 card? How can I get 3D 
> > working on that card? Thanks in advance.
> yes,
> one method is the properitary ati driver fglrx (has made great steps
> forward since apple works on x86 two)
> other is the r300 mesa driver shipped with xorg7 and
> 					may be with xorg 6.9

Both are not needed.

The Radeon 9000 is R200 based, therefore 3D support with open source
drivers is provided since XFree86 4.3 (and, of course, Xorg). All you
need is the radeon kernel module (radeon.o with 2.4 kernels or
radeon.ko with 2.6).

Regards,
Tino