Wednesday, December 31, 2008

enabling 3d (drm) on an ati 3D Rage Pro AGP (8M memory)

to enable the kernel driver you need to follow this advice (driver is missing in debian and ubuntu )

mach64 driver for xorg is already packaged for newer distributions (> hardy or debian unstable)

also in my case i had to do an
$sudo depmod -a
and added mach64 in
/etc/modules

after that i can see that direct rendering is enabled
$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
and with glgears i get 140FPS
and now i can play openredalert on this old pc

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