Render acceleration ATI (Was: Render acceleration ATI Radeon Mobile 9100)

[Lubos Vrbka <lubos.vrbka@gmail.com>]

> > > Given that your are running XOrg 6.9 from unstable you could try to use
> > > EXA and the RenderAcceleration.
> > > So set the Section "Device" to something like this:
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > >         Driver      "radeon"
> > > Identifier  "ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP"
> > >         VendorName  "ATI"
> > >         BoardName   "ATI Radeon"
> > >
> > >         Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
> > >         Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > But beware, EXA is still considered experimental.
>
> i put all these to my xorg.conf (amd64, unstable, xorg 6.9, radeon x600).
> i also have radeon, drm, amd64_agp and agpgart kernel modules loaded. 
> however
> /dev/dri
> is empty and drmOpenDevice reports that /dev/dri/cardX - no such device
> and dri is disabled.
>
> is there anything i'm missing right now?
>
> regards,
i found and 'followed' this post
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg00122.html
suggesting installing libgl1-mesa-dri and modprobing agpgart, amd64_agp 
and radeon. i have amd64_agp loaded after boot. radeon is (together with 
drm) loaded after X startup, however still no acceleration - dri fails...

or is reboot necessary?

thanks,

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Lubos
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