Reading between the lines on this thread, I gather there is no problem getting full X functionality (including 3D acceleraton) with
ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 only kernel 2.4 only X11 4.3 (maybe with patch?) I am looking at a Thinkpad R40. Elaine On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:05, Marius Mikucionis wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone else experienced problems with kernel 2.6, X11 and radeon > > M7500 graphics card? > > when I boot 2.6 everything goes ok until X11 starts, then the screen > > just blanks. no errors appear in XF86 log either. > > any suggestions would be appreciated. > > I don't know the answer to that, but maybe my story will inspire: > > I have Dell I8200 with Radeon M9000 (R250) and got XFree86 4.3.0 running > with kernel 2.6. What I miss is 3D accelaration, and mouse is a bit > shaky for the first 10sec of X start. > I did not test the suspend (to RAM) yet, but I would not be surprised if > it won't recover because of graphical mode. > > There is a nice patch for ATI cards for XFree86 4.3 (kernel-2.4) > concerning the 3D and suspend: http://cpbotha.net/dri_resume.html > Without this patch I could not do any proper resume with X on. > > So overall, I need some more time to investigate kernel-2.6, maybe the > patch is applicable for kernel-2.6 too... > > > on another note: > > what sort of frame rates in glxgears would be considered good? > > currently I get about 350-450 frames per second (kernel 2.4.24, X11 4.21 > > KDE 3.1) > > I guess you want to know whether the 3D accelaration is on? > The proper way to test is: > glxgears | grep direct > and perhaps install tuxracer - if the game is playable, > then you have 3D accelaration :-) > > > cheers, > > > > Ben. > > > > Best regards, > Marius >
