Someone Explain: Whats going on X.org/XFree

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Richard Ayer III wrote:

>That's what I had to do, though I used sudo yum install xorg-x11* to 
>upgrade. Everything looks great except for one thing (kinda unrelated), 
>what exactly do I put where in XF86Config to turn on 3D acceleration? I 
>have Load dri in the Module scetion, and a DRI section setting Group 0 
>and Mode 0666. I have and ATI AIW 9800 Pro, and I set ChipID 0x4e46 in 
>the device section so it thinks I have a 9700 and I can use the provided 
>radeon driver;  anyone know if my card is actually supported in the new 
>xorg-x11?

There is no open source driver 3D acceleration support for Radeon
9500/9600/9700/9800 variants.

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Mike A. Harris       ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - X.org X11 maintainer - Red Hat