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From: Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] ATI Radeon (Mobility) 9700, Xorg 7.1 and AIGLX
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:47:36
Message-Id: da5cd1900610201446m3044e07nf646f45517f9cb61@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi gentooers,
2 i'm running a Centrino machine with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9700
3 card using the ATI proprietary driver. I would like then to try the
4 opensource (R300) driver, since this also supports the AIGLX
5 extensions (at least i think, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX).
6 However:
7 1) i don't understand if these opensource drivers are actually in the
8 Xorg tree or i have to use an external CVS repository (from
9 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061009-newsletter.xml it seems
10 they are in the stable tree);
11 2) if with these drivers the DRI can be enabled or not;
12 3) if there exists a definitive howto to help users install these
13 drivers (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers
14 is updated?);
15
16 Thanks to all,
17 Marco
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] ATI Radeon (Mobility) 9700, Xorg 7.1 and AIGLX ellotheth rimmwen <ellotheth@×××××.com>