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Subject: Re: X.org 7.2 and Radeon question
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Scott Bennett wrote:
>      My Dell Inspiron XPS has a graphics card identified at boot time as
> 
> drm0: <ATI Radeon JN R420 Mobility M18> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xfcff0000-0xfcffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> 
> and by X.org 6.9.0 as
> 
> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc M18 JN [Radeon Mobility 9800] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe0000000/28, 0xfcff0000/16, I/O @ 0xc000/8, BIOS @ 0x80000000/17
> 
> and
> 
> (--) Chipset ATI Radeon Mobility 9800 (M18) JN (AGP) found
> 
> Thus far (up through 6.9.0) only 2-D acceleration has been available.  Can 
> anyone tell me whether 3-D acceleration is supported for this card under
> X.org 7.2?  

 From 'man radeon':

  R350        Radeon 9800PRO/9800SE/9800, FireGL X2 (2D only)
  [...]
  R420        Radeon X800 AGP (2d only)

It's the same situation as with X.org 6.9.
Perhaps you can get the new fglrx-driver which ATi released recently to 
run on your system ;-)


HTH,
Philipp
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