PPC & 3d support

[Larry Stotler]

Does anyone know why there isn't any 3d support under PPC? Thanx

[Olaf Hering]

Post by Larry Stotler
Does anyone know why there isn't any 3d support under PPC? Thanx

This depends on the graphics card. radeon and r128 cards should work,
but only sax2 does not allow 3D in the xorg.conf file.
Add 'Load "dri"' to the Module section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Olaf Hering
This depends on the graphics card. radeon and r128 cards should work,
but only sax2 does not allow 3D in the xorg.conf file.
Add 'Load "dri"' to the Module section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

My Powerbook, which has a Rage Pro Lt(and has support for DRI from the
website) has the following section:

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

Is there anything more that I need to do?

Thanx

[Peter Czanik]

Post by Larry Stotler
Does anyone know why there isn't any 3d support under PPC? Thanx

It is just sax2, which does not know about it. At least if you have a
radeon, then adding
load "dri"
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf will enable 3d.
Bye,
CzP

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Peter Czanik
It is just sax2, which does not know about it.

Why does SaX2/PPC not work with 3d?

[Manfred Tremmel]

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Peter Czanik
It is just sax2, which does not know about it.

Why does SaX2/PPC not work with 3d?

It's not only on PPC, even on x86 or x86_64, all Radeons > 9250 have to
be activated manually by adding the entry into the xorg.conf.

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Manfred Tremmel
It's not only on PPC, even on x86 or x86_64, all Radeons > 9250 have to
be activated manually by adding the entry into the xorg.conf.

Again, why? Since I don't have many ATI cards, I have never ran into
this problem. I generally have used nVidia cards.

[Manfred Tremmel]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Manfred Tremmel

Post by Manfred Tremmel
It's not only on PPC, even on x86 or x86_64, all Radeons > 9250
have to be activated manually by adding the entry into the
xorg.conf.

Again, why? Since I don't have many ATI cards, I have never ran into
this problem.

I don't know, maybe SUSE thinks it's not stable. The 3D support for R200
chips is included for a very long time, but R300 is only available
since a view X.org versions.

I generally have used nVidia cards.

Than you can be sure not to have 3D support without proprietary drivers
(which are not available for ppc).

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Manfred Tremmel
I don't know, maybe SUSE thinks it's not stable. The 3D support for R200
chips is included for a very long time, but R300 is only available
since a view X.org versions.

The newest card I have is a Radeon 7000. Between the Mac64 and Rage
Pro's, this is the biggest ATI experience I have had.

Post by Manfred Tremmel
Than you can be sure not to have 3D support without proprietary drivers
(which are not available for ppc).

Good point. Forgot about that.