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link="http://dri.sf.net">the DRI project</uri> which is part of xorg-x11, |
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The board's multimedia features are supported by drivers from <uri |
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link="http://gatos.sf.net">the GATOS project</uri>. These drivers will be |
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X11 support on the PPC or Alpha platforms is quite similar to x86 X11 support. |
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you cannot use the 3D features of the R300 GPU. If you have such a board and |
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the specs. Recently the AMD64 closed source driver has been released. AMD64 |
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AMD64 was released, so AMD64 users can now enjoy the same features as x86 |
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To enable agpgart support for certain AMD64 chipsets, you have to disable |
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To use ATI's <e>internal</e> agpgart support, disable support for the agpgart |
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PPC users could use the <c>Xautoconf</c> stand-alone configuration tool by |
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