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cast-fish:
Please can you tell the basics of graphics wih tinycore?

my laptop has a reasonable graphics chip.....ATI radeon mobility 7500 with DDR of 64 megs ram. and AGP 4x.

How does any of the above specs relate to using XORG with TCL......?..... and relate to things such as 3D...?

will XORG use the 64 megs of graphics card ram?.......XVESA wont?

i just wondered....



Earlier laptops of mine have only had standard graphics chips which SHARE some of the laptops
RAM...say 16 megs.

THis laptop is different. As mentioned above

thanks

Vince.

curaga:
Xvesa/Xfbdev will only use a standard amount, which is usually 4-16mb. To use it all you need Xorg with a suitable driver.

Xorg is also needed for any 2d and 3d accel.

cast-fish:
right


So XORG loaded and seems to be working...so then i guesse xorg is already using some suitable
driver by default?...Xorg?.....therefor it's using all 64 megs is it?


how would i know?...and how could i force it to use all Graphics chip ram?


Vince.

curaga:
Read Xorg.0.log to find out.

cast-fish:
OK Curaga...

back to square one

1) My laptop has a "ATI" radeon 7500 graphics chip with DDR 64 megs of ram.
2) As mentioned earlier in the post Tinycore does not  wholly use this graphics chip properly
by default.
3) You say it may be possible to force TCL to use the whole chip by using XORG
and an appropriate linux driver. 
4) As i mentioned earlier, XORG seems to work fine ok but i am unsure if it's seeing  the full graphics chip properly
5) Look at the XORG  org file you say.  That file seems to have thousands of  lines of text. You never thought to mention WHAT one would be looking for as an indication of the topic issue?
6) I see that TCL apps browser indeed contains x86 graphics drivers and indeed they have one for ATI chips, TCL also has a firmware tool for Radeon. 
7)  Considering the above info, my question is simple and repeated again.

 Is it possible to make this chip work right with TCL and what should be loaded, how?....and when?

Vince.

ps
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15950.msg94051.html#msg94051

This is the same problem i got here as the above after loading the Radeon firmware and ATI driver.  "Wait for X failed" error......so how do i put in a wait loop?

Vince

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