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colinb Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 114
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:51 pm Post subject: Accelerated video with Redhat but not Gentoo? hmm |
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Because of PCMCIA not working at all and video only running unaccelerated on my HP Pavilion ZE4115, I decided to install RedHat 7.3 to see if there was any difference.
I passed 'nopcmcia' to the kernel during setup (because otherwise I'm greeted with a kernel panic), as well as 'idebus=66' for this laptop's 66MHz IDE bus. Everything went fine during setup and my video chipset (ATI Mobility IGP 320M or something) wasn't detected (as I expected), so I selected generic VESA support instead. What's weird is, at the end of the installation, the setup wizard allowed me to select 16bpp and 24bpp color (at 1024x768) even though I was supposedly using a generic VESA driver. Once I started X after installation, it was running as if the video was accelerated -- or, at least, much better than the unaccelerated video I had experienced before.
What was the difference between Gentoo and RedHat that caused the performance difference I saw here? |
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dj_choco Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 144 Location: North America
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:27 pm Post subject: ATI Mobility U1 on Presario 920us |
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I got the vesa driver doing 1024 x 768 24bpp in Gentoo
I used xf86config and selected the vesa driver. I have not tried running anything that uses acceleration (as far as I know).
How did you set up X in Gentoo originally? |
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colinb Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 114
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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Ah. I don't know what I did wrong before, but X is definitely running less unaccelerated now than it was before. I'm pretty sure it's still not getting full hardware acceleration, but at least it's not using a slow software repaint for everything that happens.
--Colin |
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