Very slow 3D performance with ATI Radeon Mobility
 

Hardware: Dell Inspiron 4100, PIII 866, ATI Radeon Mobility, 512MB RAM ++

I've been running Redhat 8.0 for several months now, and whatever I did the 3D performance was awful. I recently upgraded to Redhat 9 and hoped the updated radeon driver in XFree86 4.3 would do the trick. No luck. Still 3D performance is very slow (i.e tux racer: 1-2 fps in 640x480).

2D has always been quite acceptable, however sometimes when switching between desktops X seems somewhat sluggish.

Has anyone else run into this or a similar problem?

EDIT: OK, seems to be working now. I changed a lot of settings related to XFree back and forth, and now I've got 3D in linux too :D

nothing to do with your initial question, but have you fixed the music with tux racer in rh8/9? Obviously the amiga soundfile player was non-gpl'ed :(

Thanx :)

No, can't say that I have LadFromWales85. Sorry.

what did you do?

h1tman, who did what?

he said he changed the settings to get everything working, i want to know what settings so i may do the same.

h1tman, try to set the bitdepth to 16, and see if you get opengl (try tuxracer) to work.

can i get the XF86Config file?