On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:05 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 06:05 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > fglrx won't give you direct rendering on 9200 whatsoever.. they stopped > > supporting that card a long time ago.. > > > > the open source driver should support that card in feisty fine.. > > > > glxinfo should give direct rendering... does glxgears run? > > > > Does the system lockup completely? do you have any fancy AGP options > > enabled in the logs..? does adding Option "CardType" "PCI" to the > > driver section in xorg.conf make any difference? > > Attached is my xorg.conf file and a file glxinfo.txt containing the > output of glxinfo. glxgears runs slowly and jerkily unless the window is > small. > > The computer does not lock solid when I try to run googleearth but as > that program seems to take about 95% of the CPU time not much else > happens! > > I cant see mention of AGP in the xorg.conf file, in which log file > should I look. (As you have no doubt guessed my knowledge of video cards > is very limited.) > I edited xorg.conf to call the "radeon" subdriver but the results were as before. I note that glxinfo reports "direct rendering: No" but I have not determined why. I shall be off line now until Monday.
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