[ltp] Re: Fwd: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-)

[Nate Bargmann]

* Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> [2006 Jan 01 17:59 -0600]:
> * Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> [2006 Jan 01 15:25 -0600]:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > well maybe this is of interest here to:
> > 
> > Its an easy description on how to setup 3D acceleration for any IBM 
> > ThinkPad T23 user using Etch/Sid who has not yet setup 3D. According to a 
> > posting of Nate Bargmann on the linux thinkpad mailing list this works 
> > also with a T42 when using the radeon snapshot instead. Nate also 
> > observed:
> > 
> > " I notice that with udev and the stock Debian 2.6.14 kernel (Sid) 
> > starting Xorg 6.9 automatically loads the savage and drm modules on the 
> > T23 and the radeon and drm modules on the T42."
> 
> I might as well followup here too!
> 
> The xlibmesa-dri package in Sid provides the necessary radeon_dri.so
> file and places it in the right place.  It supports several other
> cards, but not the savage (yet), unfortunately.

Let me add that as of today, Jan 2, 2006, that installing the
libgl1-mesa-dri package will remove the xlibmesa-gl package, but won't
break Xorg like a couple of days ago.  The savage_dri.so file is
provided by libgl1-mesa-dri and performance is unchanged from the
manual installation method on my T23.

Painless 3D on the T23!

- Nate >>

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