Old ATI cards... any way to get hw acceleration?

[Caesar]

Searching in this forum i've found a few treads about hardware acceleration for ATI video cards.

I have a 466MHz SE iBook with an ATI Rage Mobility 128... is there any way to get hardware acceleration fot that card?

Everithing is just too slow righ now

[StarKnight83]

I tried numerous times w/ 3.0 and couldnt get the 3d accel to click (or actually activate/work at all) it might have something to do w/ the amount of ram the card/chipset has (8MB) and what are you trying to run that actually requires 3d accel? i never had any problems w/o it (well at least as long as id kept up on xines libs)

[Caesar]

I tried numerous times w/ 3.0 and couldnt get the 3d accel to click (or actually activate/work at all) it might have something to do w/ the amount of ram the card/chipset has (8MB) and what are you trying to run that actually requires 3d accel? i never had any problems w/o it (well at least as long as id kept up on xines libs)

I'm not runnig somenthig that requires 100% 3D acceleration... but maybe that shoud be usefull to speed up everithing whit a gui
Maybe i'm wrong since i'm a linux-newbie, anyway thanks for answering

But if only i would try to get 3D acc where should i put my hands on?
I've read that tread about radeon cards... is there an option for rage cards too? Just to try it.. who knows maybe...

[StarKnight83]

the only real bit i can tell you is that the module you need is r128 (thats the rage 128 module-though im not sure how much it applies to the mobile chip)