Convince me that Yellowdog is the Linux for me!

[Neill Miller]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:41:30 -0500
aaron <aaron@textwise.com> wrote:

> How can I tell if I'm getting hardware rendering or not?  I also have 
> problems with X-windows (I can only do 1024X768 display) and this may be
> related.  I have a VERY standard video card (ATI Rage 128 16 MB) which 
> Xconfigurator claims to identify.  This could explain why my KDE
> experience is so slow.

You should see lines in /var/log/XFree86.0.log that resemble this:
<snip>
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmGetBusid returned ''
<snip>
(II) R128(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
        Screen to screen bit blits
        Solid filled rectangles
        8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
        Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
        Solid Lines
        Dashed Lines
        Offscreen Pixmaps
        Setting up tile and stipple cache:
                20 128x128 slots
                5 256x256 slots
(II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) R128(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 4614)
(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 763
(II) R128(0): X context handle = 0x00000003
(II) R128(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
(II) R128(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) R128(0): [drm] Added 128 16384 byte vertex/indirect buffers
(II) R128(0): [drm] Mapped 128 vertex/indirect buffers
(II) R128(0): Direct rendering enabled
<snip>

Check out http://dri.sourceforge.net/ for more information specifically
about 3D acceleration.

Best regards,
-Neill.

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