On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:05:02 +0100 Trygve Seljeflot wrote: > System is Mdv 2007.0 PowerPack i586, The driver loaded and 3D/DRI > worked OK after upgrade from 2006, but after some time and some > system upgrades (kernel & security mostly) it stops working. (no, i > don't remember when and what I did exactly) > > Mainboard is MSI Neo, CPU Amd-64 3200+, Videocard Radeon 9500 AD (AGP) > > After weeks of fiddling I finnaly removed all of ati/dkms
You could have stopped here.
In 2007.0 the the Radeon 9xxx series card can have 3d hw accel
using xorg/Mesa driver/drm module.
It is what I use here.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspcidrake |grep fglrx
Card:ATI Radeon (fglrx): ATI Technologies Inc.|Radeon 9600XT AR (AGP)
[DISPLAY_VGA]
from xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc."
BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
Driver "ati"
Option "DPMS"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "1"
EndSection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
....edit....
For dri to work dkms-ati, ati, and ati-kernel must be removed.
If you wish to use it and have problems setting it up, you may contact
me off-list and I will try to walk you thru it.
Charles
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