graphics acceleration

[Paul Oppenheim]

I don't believe there are accelerated proprietary drivers for PPC linux 
(assuming you have an ATI chip in your ibook). I think the open-source 
drivers work. I am on a PPC mac, but it is running OS X right now :)

ATI faq for gentoo, mentions non-x86 drivers (and lack of proprietary ones)
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

a mostly useless ubuntu forum thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=152054

The DRI page:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/

The xorg 'ati' or 'radeon' driver *may* work with DRI on PPC. I'm very 
uncertain about acceleration on PPC, but it seems neither are many 
others on this list. You may need to google for genisi (other PPC hw 
vendor, specializes in linux), tungsten (authors of the OSS ATI driver), 
and other PPC linux distro forums. If glxinfo doesn't say you're running 
accelerated after trying the ati / radeon drivers and double-checking 
your DRI in xorg.conf, you may have to do some serious research. Good luck!

+ paul

Erik Schmidt wrote:
> I am using an iBook, if it helps
> 
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 20:02 -0400, Erik Schmidt wrote:
>> so, as it turns out, I was right to ask the mailing list, I don't appear
>> to have any of the listed drivers on the previously suggested page, and
>> I cannot find anything else relevant on the ubuntu help pages
>>
>> so, any ideas?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> ~Erik
>>
>> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 19:48 -0400, Erik Schmidt wrote:
>>> sorry, I should have checked there first
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:17 -0700, David Delony wrote:
>>>> On Mar 11, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Erik Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to run some games on edgy PPC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the graphics are really slow
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> they are not this slow when I play the same games on Mac OS X on the
>>>>> same machine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> any ideas as to what is happening and how I can fix it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The help pages, strange as it sounds, are very helpful. 
>>>> Try this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto
>>>>
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