Re: X problems

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Subject: Re: X problems
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:29:43 -0400
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Zach wrote:

> I remember when I had my old Nvidia card I could use 'nv' or
> 'nvidia' driver to get hardware acceleration working. Any idea how to
> do so for my ATI card?
> 

To enable hardware acceleration, In the "Module" section of xorg.conf you
should load "dri". So the corresponding stanza in /etc/X11/xorg.conf will
look like

Section "Module"
  # bunch of load statements here
  Load "dri"
  # bunch of load statements here
EndSection

hth
raju

-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
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