[wplug] X4.1 questions

Doug Green doug.green at verizon.net
Sun Sep 2 22:11:49 EDT 2001


Do you have acceleration working?? X works just fine for me, but I'd like
to take advantage of the hardware acceleration on the chip (ie: DRI,
mesa,
etc.). I don't know if it matters, but this is a Rage Mobility M/P. If you
know how to get this working, I'm ALL EARS! :) Thanks!

Doug



On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Robert Dale wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Doug Green wrote:
>
> > I was reading about the new XFree86 release (4.1). It <appears> to claim
> > that the ati driver will now work to give accelerated X for the
> > Mobility chipset (both M and P). Does anyone have any experience with
> > this? I've tried (and failed) to get accelerated X working on my laptop
> > (Rage Mobility M/P) but theoretically it should work with 4.0.3 also. Any
> > help would be appreciated - perhaps at the installfest?
>
> I've had both X 4.0.3 and 4.1 working with a ATI Mobility M4 in my Dell
> laptop.  Make sure you have AGP support in the kernel.
>
>




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