video chip drivers.

[vinceASPECT]

Hello,

i was reading that when using Xorg you should really have the correct driver
for you video chip.

My chip is over 11 years old but it does have 3D and acceleration. (ati rage mobiility m1 chip)

would the Xorg 7.5.tcz contain a library of drivers and have this exact chip driver? or is it
most likely to have used the nearest equivalent?

Basically i don't think the chips 3D feature is working. Is there any test i can do to confirm this
or look at any file output. Or indeed, use some 3D app that will look for 3D?

the only linux driver i found for my video chip model is a the red hat 7.0 driver.

What i have noticed is that xorg has vasty improved Mplayer movie quality because i installed the extra xorg7.5dev.tcz. extension.
The info about that dev file says it gives XV support to Mplayer and if you have Xorg installed (which i do) you will get video acceleration.

So does all this really mean my chip is doing the best it can..... with whatever stock driver Xorg chose?

Should i install the ati-fglrx.tcz extension from TCL app store?

thanks,

Vince.

[curaga]

ati-fglrx only supports the HDxxx generation cards, they have dropped support for older ones.

Xorg-7.5 only includes 2d and video accel. Install Xorg-7.5-3d and test with glxinfo (post output at pastebin) and glxgears.

[vinceASPECT]

Hello,

yes thanks i have done all that.

I have tested variuos things after doing some reading and it appears that the ati video chip is working
perfectly under TCL.

Acceleration is enabled and 3D.  (i get the rotating cogs)

The only test that gave no result was an AGP test. The documentation about the video chip
does not mention anything about AGP.

is there any further performance gains by using framebuffers or anything?

I don't yet have an Xorg.conf do i?....because it was a "confless" install.

Vince.

[vinceASPECT]

Hello

This laptop's video display is now working much better.

By that i mean that my large flat panel is plugged into the laptop VGA out.

This has always worked fine but did not seem to gain much improvement after using Xorg.

I went into the laptop bios and under video there is a strange setting called "compensation"
which seems to affect resolutions.

I downlaoded the extension lxrandr.tcz but when you switched resolutions from TCL desktop the screen was miss-alligned.

Since disabling this bios setting of "compensation" everything seems to be working fine.

The video seems more responsive and faster. REsolutions are switching correctly.

It's a Fujitsu laptop.  model S5582.

It has lost of unusual bios settings i never saw on other PC's. Particularly about booting and mbr locations.

hmm

Vince.

[Juanito]

The only test that gave no result was an AGP test. The documentation about the video chip
does not mention anything about AGP.

Isn't AGP the old interface used as an alternative to PCI?