General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

Labitt, Bruce labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com
Wed Jul 9 17:29:42 EDT 2008


Hmm, not sure I'm scared of Gentoo - I don't know enough to be scared!
I've used SuSE in the past, it is ok.

 

How hard is it to set up Gentoo?

 

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From: Arc Riley [mailto:arcriley at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:27 PM
To: Labitt, Bruce
Cc: Coleman Kane; gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

 

Everyone I work with who uses the radeonhd drivers uses Gentoo.

I agree with Coleman's assessment - it was said earlier in this thread
that you'd likely need to upgrade your X server, it really is ancient,
and likely Mesa too.

The output shows that the radeonhd driver does support your card and is
detecting it, but something else is going wrong down the chain.  Since
newer Mesa's have expanded OpenGL support (ie, OpenGL 2.0) some apps may
not even work unless you're running a semi-recent version of it.

If Gentoo scares you, the newest OpenSUSE may be your best bet.

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