[ltp] T42p / FireGL T2 / Render Acceleration

[Johannes Boy]

Well, I'm not sure about DRI, but the open source drivers do not
support 3D. Maybe they do not support DRI either?
So yes, I guess that message is to be expected.

On 9/24/06, Carlos Moffat <carlos.lst@eldiabloenlosdetalles.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using radeon driver (open source) in my T42p (kernel 2.6.17).
> Everything works fine, but I was wondering about this message in the
> Xorg log:
>
> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and
> newer.
> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
>
>
> 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.
>
> My question is: Is the above message from X.log the expected for this
> hardware, so that there's no support for acceleration right now, or can
> I get my hands on a newer driver? If somebody has this working, can you
> share your secret?
>
> Thanks,
> Carlos
>
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