acceleration

[Stephen Durham]

I installed some modified debian packages that allowed for dri
acceleration for my Omnichrome chipset from http://www.nixnuts.net/ that
worked great for me until I got a different video card. You could also
switch to hoary and get the dri binaries from freedesktop.org, when it
comes back up apparently it was compromised on the 15th.
These are both hacks that require some patience and a bit of work, they
are not simple fixes and I don't think they should be considered
permanent fixes to this issue. Hopefully future versions will included
acceleration for these chipsets, maybe it does for the MGA but I know
that it didn't work for the Omnichrome, from VIA.  It might even already
be in the hoary system, like I said I don't use this card anymore and I
did this before the final version of warty was released.
-Stephen

Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>On 13/11/04 Steven Didier said:
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>>Could someone tell me how to enable 3d acceleration on my TiBook 867 
>>MHz. Ubuntu was the easiest install I've tried yet but I don't know how 
>>to make it (the Xserver) draw the screen so that dragging windows and 
>>objects across the desktop doesn't leave a trail like a slow comet!
>>Thanks!
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>I would also like to know this. Fedora enabled acceleration for me, but
>it appears that it is not enabled in Ubuntu. 
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>[msoulier at latte msoulier]$ glxinfo | grep 'direct rendering'
>Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
>direct rendering: No
>[msoulier at latte msoulier]$ lspci | grep VGA
>0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200
>AGP (rev 01)
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>Mike
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