3D accelaration on old ATi Rage

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I was wondering what comments I need to put in the xorg.conf file to enable 3D accelaration for an old ATi Rage Turbo.

[CODE]Section “Device”

Available Driver options are:-

Values: : integer, : float, : “True”/“False”,

: “String”, : “ Hz/kHz/MHz”

[arg]: arg optional

#Option “accel” # []
#Option “crt_display” # []
#Option “composite_sync” # []
#Option “hw_cursor” # []
#Option “linear” # []
#Option “mmio_cache” # []
#Option “test_mmio_cache” # []
#Option “panel_display” # []
#Option “probe_clocks” # []
#Option “reference_clock” #
#Option “shadow_fb” # []
#Option “sw_cursor” # []
Identifier “Card0”
Driver “ati”
VendorName “ATI”
BoardName “3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X”
ChipSet “ati”
ChipId 0x4742
ChipRev 0x5c
BusID “PCI:1:0:0”
EndSection[/CODE]

The ‘accel’ option is there but I don’t know what the syntax is to activate it. Any ideas?
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Guess it depends primarily on your distro; whether or not you have the modules already. What distro are you running?

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This is for my computer running VectorLinux 5.1 std.

I am using the drivers/modules that were installed by default. I haven’t added anything myself. The card has been detected and installed properly as I am not using the Vesa driver.

Do you know if the open source ATi drivers (which i’ll presume i am using) are 3D accelerated? I can watch 3D screensavers, so maybe I have acceleration already? :confused:

My head hurts… :smiley: