General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Bruce Labitt]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 16:03 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
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>> Load Module: "radeonhd"
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>> Warning, couldn't open "radeonhd"
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>> Failed to load module "radeonhd" (module does not exist, 0)
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>> So what extra steps do I take after building radeonhd?
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> Install it where your X server is looking for modules?
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> For 64-bit EL5, /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers, for 32-bit,
> s/lib64/lib/.
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Hmm, radical idea :)  That helped!
After much breath holding / restarting of x, it appears the radeonhd driver is installed.

Of course, it doesn't seem to change the results on glxgears.  glxinfo looks different now.

So on to configuring radeonhd...

-Bruce