[ltp] Radeon support for T42 DRI?

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:38:40 +0200


On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 14:20:42 -0400, Jiang Qian wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:00:07AM -0700, Bill Sheppard wrote:
> > I'm running SuSE 9.3 (Xorg 6.8.2) on a T42 with a Radeon RV350 (Mobility
> > Radeon 9600 M10).  When starting X my log notes
> > 
> > (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and
> > newer.
> > (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
> > 
> > I'm not able to find a newer Xorg which will run on SuSE 9.3 and would
> > rather not compile everything up on my own.  Is there any way to update
> > the radeon driver to support DRI on this version of X?
> You need an xorg 7.1

It should also work with Xorg 6.9. 6.8.2 works with a patched radeon
driver and the r300_dri.so copied to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/.

Regards,
Tino