General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Labitt, Bruce]

Hi Arc,

 

I tried changing xorg.conf to "radeonhd".  That hosed things up.  

 

I built radeonhd from the instructions on wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

 

If I use the following:

 

#system-config-display --noui --set-driver=radeonhd

 

Is that going to be ok?

 

Thanks!

Bruce

 

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From: Arc Riley [mailto:arcriley at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:55 PM
To: Labitt, Bruce
Cc: Ben Scott; Greater NH Linux User Group
Subject: Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

 

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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