Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Adam Johansson <adam.johansson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 17:53, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When setting up X I am offered the option of installing 3d modules for
> the ATI rage Lite Pro ( gasps of despair from people who know about
> these things ) - my question is - which module (?s) and having done
> that does anyone know whether 8.0 will finally allow 3d accel on this
> laptop.
> 
> Cheers and TIA
> 
> Francesco
> 
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Hello,
head over to http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ for hardware accelerated
drivers for ATI chipsets.
I myself use a laptop with an ATI chipset where these drivers offer
colorspaceconversion and scaling in hardware. This gives me fullscreen
playback of DVD's using Xine on a rather old laptop that dropped nearly
half of the frames with ordinary drivers.

Haven't tried any OpenGL accel-stuff with these drivers, though they
mention some hardware support for 3d. I doubt it matches that of a
Nvidia card though...

Good luck!
/Adam
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