On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 13:47, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 the mental interface of > mammique told: > > > Le sam 03/01/2004 à 01:21, Luis Sanjuan a écrit : > > > X works fine here on my AlBook 1.33GHz 17'' (ATI Radeon 9600) > > > > > > kernel: 2.6.0-ben1 (AFAIK, no problems with newer 2.6.X) > > > debian-dist: sid > > > xserver: xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk (from michel daenzer) > > > XF86Config-4: > > > <snip> > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "AlBook Internal Video" > > > Driver "radeon" > > > Option "UseFBDev" > > > EndSection > > > <snip> > > > > > > > This doesn't work on my machine, both 2.4.23 & 2.6.X fails, xserver > > don't work : > > Why do you want to use the radeon-driver from Michel? The radeon > 9600 doesn't support OGL (mesa and the like) in linux. I have no > problems with the framebuffer X-driver. > Driver "fbdev"
Even without 3D hardware acceleration, the radeon driver offers much more than the fbdev driver, e.g. 2D acceleration, XVideo, multihead, ... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
