Hardware accel

SDL Development
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Is there a list somewhere that lists what cards have hardware accel
under Linux?

-Benjamin Meyer
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If you’re using XFree then you should check the
XFree Release Notes for the version you’re using.> Is there a list somewhere that lists what cards

have hardware accel
under Linux?

-Benjamin Meyer
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Hi,
I use a ATI Rage PRO 3D 8Mb of Ram on Linux Mandrake 7.2 and I think I need to share my experience:

At install, Mandrake installer proposes to either install XFree 4.0.1 or XFree 3.3.6 with 3D acceleration.

I chose Xfree 3.3.6 with 3D … it crashed.
Everytime I would use a program that calls the Mesa/GLX/GLU libraries it would crashe bad to the point I should do a reboot manually (actually, the display froze. I was able to access from telnet/ssh).

To fix the problem I searched and searched and finally I found this information:
The GLU library is wrong and will always crash the system. To get a solution I went to:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/archives//gl4java-usergroup/2000-November/000391.html
where I took the file:
ftp://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/pub/mesa3d/SI-GLU/oss-opengl-glu-20000925-1.i386.rpm

I installed it and played chromium/gltron all night long!!!

So for Xfree 3.3.6, there is support for the ATI RagePRO 3D 8Mb.

Aurelien

ps: I think we should all give our experiences as to what system we have (Distro/XFree/Video Card) to know what really works well…> ----- Original Message -----

From: Andy Sy [mailto:andy@mindgate.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:38 AM
To: sdl at lokigames.com
Subject: [SDL] Re: hardware accel

If you’re using XFree then you should check the
XFree Release Notes for the version you’re using.

Is there a list somewhere that lists what cards
have hardware accel
under Linux?

-Benjamin Meyer
4

Hi,
I use a ATI Rage PRO 3D 8Mb of Ram on Linux Mandrake 7.2 and I think I need
[…]
So for Xfree 3.3.6, there is support for the ATI RagePRO 3D 8Mb.

Same card, different distro, different story;

P-II 400 MHz, 128 MB, RagePro AGP 8 MB, running Red Hat 6.2, “upgraded” to
7.0 (boy, did I have to do some cleaning up after that…! argh) with
XFree86 3.3.6 and Utah-GLX 0.10-pre1 (with my retrace sync patch).

The kernel is Linux 2.2.10-lowlatency with MTRR support compiled in. glx.conf
is all commented out; ie only default settings. DMA mode is set to 2 when X
fires up, and the fixed buffer is 2 MB.

Basically, I just built Utah-GLX from source and threw it in, and after some
minor config file tweaking (can’t remember if I actually did anything but
telling X to load the new glx.so), it just worked. It’s not as rock solid as
the G400 setup at home, but at least it never seems to freeze X unless it
does so the first time GL is used.

//David

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I agree, but I would suspect that this source of information might be most
accessable if placed in a HOWTO or a mini-HOWTO at the LDP. Anyone interested
in assembling one? (I’d assist, but I am way too busy with things to be the
principle maintainer)

As for me, I have a Voodoo 2 with RH6.2 . The initial glide setup/support
worked fine, but getting Mesa to work was a bear. The Mesa that comes with
RH6.2 (or, at least, the release I have) does not have support for the Voodoo 2
compiled in. As I recall, I would have wound up recompiling, except that I did
find a custom made RPM for my situation on rpmfind.net.

(As a matter of fact, as I recall I bugged the hell out of Andreas Umbach
trying to figure out why I could play Quake II but not gltron ;-)On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, you wrote:

ps: I think we should all give our experiences as to what system we have (Distro/XFree/Video Card) to know what really works well…

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