Hello, well maybe this is of interest here to:
Its an easy description on how to setup 3D acceleration for any IBM ThinkPad T23 user using Etch/Sid who has not yet setup 3D. According to a posting of Nate Bargmann on the linux thinkpad mailing list this works also with a T42 when using the radeon snapshot instead. Nate also observed: " I notice that with udev and the stock Debian 2.6.14 kernel (Sid) starting Xorg 6.9 automatically loads the savage and drm modules on the T23 and the radeon and drm modules on the T42." Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:42:13 -0600 Subject: Re: [ltp] Fwd: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-) List-Id: This list for users of Linux on IBM Thinkpads. <linux-thinkpad.linux-thinkpad.org> On the T23 it needed a complete reboot not only a X server reload till the driver worked. Before that glxgears and glxinfo both gave a segmentation fault. Have a Happy New Year!! Regards, Martin ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Subject: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-) Date: Samstag 31 Dezember 2005 18:08 From: Martin Steigerwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, finally I got it working. I had a try compiling the needed parts on my own but I had no luck with that and no time to dig deeper. Now I didn't need to compile a single bit. I just used X.org 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 from Debian unstable from today ;-) with the savage drm module from this self compiled kernel (with also sports software suspend 2 which is working nicely ;): Linux version 2.6.14.5-tp23-sws2-2.2-rc15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc-Version 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)) #1 PREEMPT Fri Dec 30 11:53:37 CET 2005 Together with the latest binary DRI driver snapshot: http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/savage-20051220-linux.i386.tar.bz2 Using a mixture of Debian Etch/Sid. I just copied savage-20051220-linux.i386/savage/savage_dri.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/ and restarted the X server. You also have to make sure that the savage module is loaded, I put "savage" into /etc/modules in case its not automatically loaded by udev's hotplug functionality. I got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Computer/deepdance/3D-Treiber -> glxgears 1182 frames in 5.0 seconds = 236.227 FPS 1159 frames in 5.0 seconds = 231.676 FPS 1175 frames in 5.0 seconds = 234.958 FPS Compared to this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -> glxgears 907 frames in 5.0 seconds = 181.400 FPS 690 frames in 5.0 seconds = 138.000 FPS 853 frames in 6.0 seconds = 142.167 FPS 711 frames in 5.0 seconds = 142.200 FPS And tested with supertux, chromium, powermanga and they all worked well and smooth compared to the jerkyness I had before. I also tested with celestia. It also worked well, but showed some rendering bugs in some cases. Sometimes it seemed the driver got the rendering area wrong. Well, thanks to everyone who made this possible! Could well be that Debian Etch will come with Savage 3D acceleration out of the box then, I guess. Special thanks to Alex for hanging out on this mailing list and helping people getting things set up. I hope my little description above will help other TP23 users who are not scared away from using Debian Etch/Sid to get 3D acceleration the easy and lazy way. ;) Have a happy new year! Now I just need to find out the name of the large free software elite alike space flight game again I could never play cause it was way to slow on my hardware. ;) Regards, -- [... sig ...] ------------------------------------------------------- -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
