Re: direct rendering with RHL 9 on ATI Rage 128
"Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86 |
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| Organization | Red Hat Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Dave Reed wrote: >> >It's been a while, but I thought RHL 8.0 configured my ATI Rage 128 >> >Mobility chipset in my laptop for direct rendering. I just installed >> >RHL 9 and direct rendering is not enabled. The "Enable Hardware 3D >> >Acceleration" checkbox is insensitve when I run >> >redhat-config-xfree86. I have thousands of colors as the option since >> >I believe this chipset/laptop LCD only support 16 bit color. >> >> Manually enable DRI by editing the X config file and making sure >> the line: >> >> Load "dri" >> >> ... is present in the modules section. Our config tool assumes >> that 3D acceleration is only available on Radeon and matrox I >> think. Someone (possibly myself) reported this stupid behaviour, >> but it seems to have not gotten fixed. As such the enable-3D >> feature in the config tool is useless, unless you have one of the >> few cards the checkbox is enabled for. >> >> Please file a bug report about this and CC me. > > >I sent a second mail (although for some reason I didn't get either of >them) indicating that it does work now. I'm not certain what I changed >although I may have initially selected 24 bit color. The checkbox is >still insensitve but I do have direct rendering. Do you still want a >bug report submitted. The bug wasn't DRI not working, it was that the config tool doesn't let you enable DRI. That is aparently still a valid bug, so yes, please file it in bugzilla. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com