On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Stefano Facchini <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have followed the instructions in > http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo to build the latest ATI driver > and Mesa. I succeeded in build and install everything. However, with > > glxinfo | grep OpenGL > > I still get > > OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer > > so 3d hardware acceleration is disabled. Is this a problem of my video > card Radeon HD 5470? I thought that some 3d support was already > enabled with the open source driver (see > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evergreen_3d&num=1). > Has someone any suggestion?
Make sure you have kernel 2.6.36 or newer, mesa 7.9 or newer, and xf86-video-ati from git master. Alex > > bye > Stefano > > > Debian squeeze, kernel version 2.6.36 > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
