On Sun, 25 May 2003 08:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 14:53, J.C. Woods wrote: > > Jack Coates wrote: > > >any one got this working? Driving me nuts. Card is an ATI Radeon 7000 > > >PCI, XFdrake chooses the radeon driver, everything works fine in 2D -- > > >but DRI is not enabled, and all that the log says is "not enabling > > >direct rendering." Nothing about why! XFConfig-4 looks fine to me. > > > > > >potential issue is that there is a built-in trident cyberblade/i which > > >cannot be disabled. XFree86 detects it and loads modules despite > > >removing its section from config, so maybe DRI isn't loading because > > >that card doesn't support it? > > > > Can't be *disabled*? This means you have tried to do so from your BIOS, > > yes? I can tell you that DRI is enabled with my radeon driver, if that > > helps to confirm that it does indeed work. I am do just this on my > > LMDK9.0. Check XF86Config-4 for AGPMode "true", and check for agpgart > > loaded into kernel. > > > > Cheers, > > drjung > > that's right. PCI card, but I tried the AGP stuff any way with the > expected result of no change.
for 3D, you�re going to need the proprietary dri and fglrx drivers from ATI. They were posted on their German support site, and, while I could get them to sort of work under 9.0 (X worked in blissful 3-D, but going back to runlevel 3 gave me a messed-up/blitted console, I could not get the newer drivers to work on 9.1. There was a short thread on this a coupla months back - �ATI Radeon Drivers� The other thing I just noticed, is that the latest kernel from MDK seems to include some fixes for the Radeon good luck with it all - I must admit I gave up under 9.1 and bought a Ti4200 - what to do? -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F
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