General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

[Coleman Kane]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 17:29 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> 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.
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> How hard is it to set up Gentoo?
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Visit:
  * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml

Pick your architecture from the first row of the first table, with the
description labeled "Latest version, one page per chapter, perfect for
online viewing".

Go read Chapter 1. If it makes sense to you then that is how easy it
will be.

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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?
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> 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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> 
-- 
Coleman Kane
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