Jim Flanagan wrote: > BandiPat wrote: > >> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Lee, >>> >>> My xorg.cong contains all these lines, except the "dri". The others >>> are there, but not in the same order. Does that matter? I have not >>> added "dri" yet, should I? >>> >>> Sax2 is detecting my 9800 Pro as R350 NH. I believe that is correct. >>> The 3D box is grayed out, don't have access to it. I do have a spare >>> 9200 laying around that I could throw in this machine if that would >>> help, but from what you indicated the 9800 Pro should work well with >>> the default drivers. With the default install I was only getting >>> about 23fps in glxgears, way too slow for this card. That is why I >>> was trying to install the ATI drivers. Since then I can't run either >>> glxgears or fglrxgears. And other stuff is not right, like >>> screensaver. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Jim F >>> >>> >> ========= >> No, it doesn't matter in what order they are in, but all of them should >> be there! Sounds like it is seeing the card correctly and I'm pretty >> sure that card is supported. What version of xorg are you running? If >> it's the build that came with 10.0, that version may not support that >> card fully, but will do excellent 2d. That may be your problem and the >> reason the 3D box is greyed out to you. I do believe 7.1 and above >> supports the 9800 fully though. I'll look in the changelog to see what >> it says. >> >> Either way, you should be able to add the "dri" module to get some 3D >> now, although it may not be exceptional, it should still work. >> >> good luck, >> Lee >> >> > Hi all, > > I will try adding the "dri" now. I had previously updated all xorg stuff > to the latest, which it got from one of the sources I added, (I believe > from ftp.gwdg.de..., but not sure). The version for xorg now is > 7.2-146.7-i586. > > OK, X will not start with the load "dri" in xorg.conf. Black screen of death. I do have keyboard control, but no X. I removed it and now back to the desktop. I'm starting to think this card is not very well supported, by neither ATI nor xorg. I could try my older Radeon 9200 , oops, sorry, it a 9000 with 64mb ram. But, the problem still my be something else which is causing glxinfo to not run.
I guess I could have just re-installed the entire 10.2 system, time wise this would have been faster, but I don't want to do that. I really want to figure this thing out, how this X stuff works. So at the risk of making the one of those threads that just wont die, I'll try another uninstall if KDE, then deleting ~/.kde (saving my kmail file first of course), then reinstall KDE to see if that fixes the other stuff. As to whether the radeon 9800 pro will work with 3d or not, will find out then. Will report back. Many thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
