Re: Render acceleration ATI Radeon Mobile 9100

[Michael Biebl]

David R. Litwin wrote:
> I have a Toshiba A70 laptop with Mobile P4 H-T, ATI Radeon Mobile RS300M AGP
> 9100IGP, KDE 3.5, Sid, kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp.
> 
> How do I enable the render acceleration on my card? I wish to use the
> Translucency effects offered by KDE. Doing so currently makes every thing
> un-usably slow.
> 
> In addition, how can a card be both AGP and IGP? This comes from
> KInfoCentre.
> 
> Thank you kindly in advance.
> 
> Some relevant bits from xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Module"
>     Load    "bitmap"
>     Load    "dbe"
>     Load    "ddc"
>     Load    "dri"
>     Load    "evdev"
>     Load    "extmod"
>     Load    "freetype"
>     Load    "glx"
>     Load    "int10"
>     Load    "record"
>     Load    "type1"
>     Load    "v4l"
>     Load    "vbe"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP"
>     Driver        "ati"
> EndSection

Given that your are running XOrg 6.9 from unstable you could try to use
EXA and the RenderAcceleration.
So set the Section "Device" to something like this:

Section "Device"
        Driver      "radeon"
        Identifier  "ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP"
        VendorName  "ATI"
        BoardName   "ATI Radeon"

        Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection

But beware, EXA is still considered experimental.

HTH,
Michael
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