Re: radeon opengl help
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:31, Mark Roach wrote:
> Hi folks, I am trying to understand how to get opengl working on my
> compaq evo n1000v laptop with radeon M7 LW (7500) and it seems pretty
> confusing. Can someone break it down for me a little bit? Here's what my
> current understanding is:
>
> A kernel module is required, my kernel (2.4.22) includes a radeon
> module, will this do, or do I need one from somewhere else?
>
> I need a recent XFree86, I've got 4.3.0 prev1 from experimental, but I
> keep reading about DRI trunk, and I don't know what I should be using
>
> I have the xlibmesa-* packages installed which is what I understand I
> need
>
> What's next? From what I can tell, I do not actually have accelerated
> graphics working... glxinfo gives this:
> libGL error: InitDriver failed
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
>
> Any suggestions or documentation anyone can give would be much
> appreciated, documentation especially as I would like to actually
> understand how all this stuff works...
Hi Mark,
Add this to your sources.list:
# DRI
deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./
and apt-get drm-trunk-module-src. Then read all about this in
/usr/share/doc/drm-trunk-module-src.
Good luck,
David
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