General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Coleman Kane]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:13 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> No joy so far.  Still getting Mesa GLX Indirect.  Any other ideas?
> 
> Does the order in the file matter?

Did you update to the latest development versions of mesa, drm,
dri2proto, xorg-server, and friends?

Also, you need to enable AIGLX in your xserver.

If you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log after running an unsuccessful X
session, it will be easier to diagnose the problem.

> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Arc Riley [mailto:arcriley at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:06 PM
> To: Labitt, Bruce
> Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?
> 
> Looks like you're missing the glx module, based on your paste not including it.
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "glx"
> 
> In the future I'll be sure to ask what distro you're running before recommending hardware.  Apparently everyone that isn't running Gentoo or another up-to-date distro is a second-class citizen left to toil in the fields if they want anything even remotely new.
> 
> # emerge -av xf86-video-radeonhd 
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
> Arc,
>  
> My kernel is 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5
>  
> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf I have
>  
> Section "Device"
>   Identifier "Videocard0"
>   Driver     "radeonhd"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Screen"
>   Identifier "Screen0"
>   Device     "Videocard0"
>   DefaultDepth 24
>   SubSection "Display"
>      Viewport 0 0
>      Depth    24
>   EndSubSection
> EndSubSection
>  
> Regards,
> Bruce
> 
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