Re: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Martin Drab wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:56:11 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Martin Drab <[email protected]>
> To: Gerhard Mack <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?
> 
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Martin Drab wrote:
> > 
> > > Have you seen this
> > > 
> > > 	http://r300.sourceforge.net/
> > > 
> > > However, I'm not sure how much useable it is allready. Perhaps not much. 
> > > Otherwise you would probably either have to stick with the ATI's binary 
> > > drivers or open source unaccelerated drivers. I'm not aware of anything 
> > > else being available for recent ATI chips.
> > 
> > Although those drivers support the card, they do not compile on recent 
> > kernels. I managed to hack it to compile and then ended up with X being 
> > unable to access the /dev/dri/card* devices.
> 
> Then check the permissions.
> 
> Martin

Strangely enough the directory is empty.. if I use mknod to create the 
files they get removed as soon as X loads.
 

--
Gerhard Mack

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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