General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Bruce Labitt]

So how is the DRM kernel module made active?

Arc Riley wrote:
> Since you're no longer under the warm and fuzzy management of your 
> distro, it's possible something related to DRI may be disabled or 
> lacking permissions.
>
> Also note you'll need the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel module 
> active.
>
> when glxinfo says that your direct rendering is enabled, you're golden.
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net 
> <mailto:bruce.labitt at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     Jarod Wilson wrote:
>     > On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 16:03 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
>     >
>     >> Load Module: "radeonhd"
>     >>
>     >> Warning, couldn't open "radeonhd"
>     >>
>     >> Failed to load module "radeonhd" (module does not exist, 0)
>     >>
>     >
>     >
>     >> So what extra steps do I take after building radeonhd?
>     >>
>     >
>     > Install it where your X server is looking for modules?
>     >
>     > For 64-bit EL5, /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers, for 32-bit,
>     > s/lib64/lib/.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>
>     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
>
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