[ltp] T42p / FireGL T2 / Render Acceleration

[Laurent Gilson]

Hello,

> I'm using Debian/Sid, which contains the libgl-mesa-dri passage with
> what appears to be a relatively recent CVS (version is
> 6.5.0.cvs.20060524-1) package of the r300_dri driver, as well as a
> recent ati driver. Direct rendering works fine.

DRI and 3D are two different things: you can have DRI working (fast 2D)  
but 3D "failing" (mesa software renderer fallback).

> My question is: Is the above message from X.log the expected for this
> hardware

Yes. ATI never told anybody how these chips work (and your card is based  
on one of those).

> , so that there's no support for acceleration right now, or can
> I get my hands on a newer driver?

You can install an OLD version of the closed-source ATI driver. Do not use  
a recent version as ATI has dropped support for these cards (3D and 2D).

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