General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Arc Riley]

are you using the radeonhd driver?

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com>
wrote:

> Subject: Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Labitt, Bruce
> <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
> > #system-config-display --noui --set-driver=radeon_tp
> >
> > If this for some reason hoses things, how does one recover back to the
> > baseline Intel mobo graphics?
>
>  Before you run the above command, make a backup of your existing
> config file:
>
> cd /etc/X11
> cp xorg.conf intel.xorg.conf
>
>  Then, if you need to revert, copy the backup over the newly damaged
> file:
>
> cd /etc/X11
> cp intel.xorg.conf xorg.conf
>
> -- Ben
> _______________________________________________
>
> [Labitt, Bruce] Thanks Ben.  I'm now running on the radeon x1650 with
> dvi on my monitor.
>
> Perhaps this question is more to Arc.
>
> I still am having some trouble getting going.  I'm not quite sure what
> to try next.  I tried downloading driconf-0.9.1 to "configure" my 3d
> stuff.  When I run it I get
>
> unknown chip id 0x71c1, can't guess.
> libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
> libGL error: InitDriver failed
> libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
>
> Sounds like I still need to configure stuff...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> I also tried playing with gluplot which supposedly uses opengl for
> rendering.  I have no idea what format for the data files are required.
> Anyone play with that?
>
> -Bruce
>
>
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