I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1:
I tried the ATI driver, which has its own XFreeConfig-4 generator, and generates a completely useless file. It looks like it tries to use a driver called "fglrx" for 3D acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses "1:0:0" and "1:0:1" I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config file which I used for my previous video card, and after commenting out the ATI-generated stuff, inserting the Driver "fglrx" into the "Device" section and leaving the PCI, stuff out, instead using "AGPMode" "true", I get X to boot, but it seems woefully slow, (about 200 - 220 in glxgears). I see also that there are gatos drivers which might cover this card, but yet again, I'm at a loss as to which way forward here.... Just thinking about this, I wonder if the libGL.so.1.2 is playing nice, and does anyone have a clue as to how I determine which/whose version I've got installed ....... alternatively, of course, if anyone has upgraded to one of these cards (rather than a clean install), I'd really like to hear from you as to how you achieved all this TIA -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F
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