On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:14:15 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:43:08PM +0100, segv wrote:
> > I have another question: I notice considerable flicker on the screen
> > when scrolling in xterm or a gtk application.
> 
> Does not happen for me.
> 
> > Is that because the
> > driver is unaccelerated? There is no flicker when running on
> > Solaris.
> 
> The driver is accelerated, unless you forbid it with "options NoAccel
> YES". Check your /var/log/XFree86.0.log - it should have something
> like this:
> 
> (II) /dev/fb0: Using acceleration
> (II) /dev/fb0: DGA support initialized.
> 
> Martin

Well this is what the log file shows:

(II) /dev/fb0: AFB: Detected Elite3D/M6.
(II) /dev/fb0: BT498 (PAC2) ramdac detected
(II) /dev/fb0: Detected Elite3D M3/M6, checking firmware...
(II) /dev/fb0: ... AFB firmware not loaded
(WW) /dev/fb0: Forcing no acceleration on Elite3D M3/M6
(==) SUNFFB(0): Backing store disabled
(==) SUNFFB(0): Silken mouse enabled
(==) SUNFFB(0): DPMS disabled
(==) RandR enabled

No acceleration. Any ideas what's wrong? I don't have any "options
NoAccel YES" in kernel config file or Option "NoAccel" "yes" in /etc/
X11/XF86Config file. So why is it forcing no acceleration??

PS. I had to delete vga_drv.o and ati_drv.o from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/
drivers, since Xserver tried to load them by default and it wouldn't
work.