3D overload [LWN.net]

3D overload

Posted Dec 5, 2009 1:29 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: 3D overload by anton
Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13

I once ran X on the ES1000, and X recognized it as a Radeon 7000 or somesuch. We have free accelerated 3D drivers for the Radeon 7000. IIRC I even tried 3D, and it worked.

I guess everybody has their memory play tricks on them sometimes. The ES1000 has no 3D capability. If you don't believe me you might read ATI's specifications for it, or the source of the free driver you're talking about.

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3D overload

Posted Dec 16, 2009 19:03 UTC (Wed) by daenzer (✭ supporter ✭, #7050) [Link]

> The ES1000 has no 3D capability.

Actually, at least initially the 3D hardware was there, just not validated during production (probably that's cheaper than actually removing the hardware). So with luck it might work at least to some degree, but if it breaks you get to keep both pieces. The X.Org radeon driver currently disables all functionality using 3D hardware by default on these cards but it can be enabled via xorg.conf options for giggles (the extremely low video memory bandwidth probably precludes any non-trivial 3D usage anyway).