Hello,
Speaking of Beryl and friends, has anyone managed (and is it possible at
all) to configure Debian Etch to take maximum advantage of the hardware of a
ATI Radeon 9000 (RV250) to display OpenGL-based applications?
For that matter I'd even go with the binary drivers if that's what it takes.
I'm just a Google Earth buff and also VERY curios to see Baryl/Compriz
running, not to mention the possible other speedups which might help other
day-to-day applications.
So far I tried to google for a long time but haven't found a link which will
actually confirm whether this is even possible, it looks like this hardware
is falling rapidly below the"supported" threshold, but this is what I'm
stuck with for now.
Some details:
1. "sudo lspci -v -v -v" shows the following about the card:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If
[Radeon 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 4010
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 255 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at dc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=48 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64-
HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW-
Rate=<none>
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Radeon 9000]
(Secondary) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 4011
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Region 1: Memory at dd010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
The motherboard is a Gigabyte 7N400 (NOT "Pro" or anything else) with an
nVidia nForce2 chipset.
And Debian Etch comes with xserver-xorg 7.1.0, though the "video ati"
package is in version 6.6.3-2, for what it's worth.
Thanks,
--Amos
