Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #354677
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 354677

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David Hedberg (david-hedberg) wrote :

I should have done this before reporting the bug of course, but as I had vague memories of acceleration working when trying out an earlier live-cd version of ubuntu "long ago", I downloaded the 5.04 Live CD and tried it out. And it did indeed have working 3D-acceleration.

Comparing the logs seemed to point at the difference lying in 5.04 falling back on pci for the dri, so I added:
 Option "BusType" "PCI"
to my xorg.conf.

With this option added, 3D-acceleration (including compiz which I'm using at the moment) seems to work just fine, and glxgears (the beloved benchmarking tool ;) ) reports fps about 10 times higher than before.

So. Bug closed?

(is there even any use in reporting possibly ppc-specific bugs?)