DFII with ATI graphic cards

[Matthias Voelker]

Hi,

I'm using DFII on by notebook. Especially Virtuoso XL is very slow there
(zoom, moving and so on). I was talking to some colleges and heard that
this is a problem of ATI graphic cards. Our desktop systems are using
Nvidia Cards and them are much faster.

We tried different notebooks with RHEL3 and RHEL4 but there are only few
notebooks with nvidia cards.

Is there any configuration which speeds up the graphic with ATI cards?

Kind regards

 

[Pete nospam Zakel]

In article <e5242q$dfk$1@news2.open-news-network.org> Matthias Voelker <m.matze@gmx.de> writes:

Hi,

I'm using DFII on by notebook. Especially Virtuoso XL is very slow there
(zoom, moving and so on). I was talking to some colleges and heard that
this is a problem of ATI graphic cards. Our desktop systems are using
Nvidia Cards and them are much faster.

We tried different notebooks with RHEL3 and RHEL4 but there are only few
notebooks with nvidia cards.

Is there any configuration which speeds up the graphic with ATI cards?

Sorry it's taken me so long to get to this, but I researched some old reports
of problems with ATI chipsets on laptops, and the basic solutions I found were
to 1) go to the ATI web site and download the latest graphics driver and use
that, and 2) edit /etc/X11/XF86Config file to ensure the DRI and GLX modules
are not loaded and set the "no_dri" OPTION to "yes" -- which essentially
disables 3D acceleration.

-Pete Zakel
(phz@seeheader.nospam)

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