Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

[Ian Kabeary]

I dont want the ATi ones though, they dont give my card 3d acceleration.
~Ian

PS> Sadly enough, I found out they dont do 3D accel. AFTER I installed them.
:)


On 8/15/06, Julien Cabillot <jcabillot@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> I have Xorg7.1 & ati-drivers, that's work fine.
>
>
> On 8/15/06, Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <omega21@×××××.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > > My laptop has a Radeon 9100. Toshiba advertised a 9000 so at the time
> > I was
> > > happy. Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont give this
> > card
> > > 3d acceleration, which it is totally capable of. Anyway, I tried the
> > wiki
> > > instructions on getting this card to work but they are quite cryptic
> > the way
> > > they have written them. It kind of branches off into three different
> > ways of
> > > doing it, but you never know what reading to skip and what to do.
> > >
> > > I got reasonably far. What I did was take the support for the direct
> > > rendering manager out of the kernel, while including the Radeon driver
> > and
> > > other associated things. For the purposes of this support request, I
> > do not
> > > believe they are completely relevant. After doing what I think it was
> > that I
> > > should do, I started X. (I have 7.1.1 by the way). What I end up with
> > is
> > > that it cant find the drivers because the version of the radeon driver
> >
> > > version doesn't match the server version or something? I have no idea
> > what
> > > that means.
> > >
> > > Projects use waaaay different versioning systems. Seriously, I have no
> > clue
> > > what its going on about! :) Is this a cryptic way of saying the driver
> > wants
> > > Xorg < 7.0?
> >
> > Xorg 7.0 should be fine. Nvidia and ati have not released drivers that
> > work with 7.1 yet. In my experience, ati drivers are hell to get
> > working (I never did get them working in the end - but I do have
> > friends who have gotten them up and running) so I wish you luck.
> >
> > --
> > Neil Isaac
> > isaac.neil@×××××.com
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> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Julien Cabillot
>



-- 
~Ian