Re: ATI FireGL V5200, proprietary and open source drivers

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 07/29/08 16:00, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > On 07/29/08 11:38, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > |>  Does this infer that you need a graphical console, DRM or a kernel
> > > |>  frame buffer?
> > >
> > > Not as far as I can tell. The script checks for various dependencies (git, headers for
> > > the running kernel, the kernel building packages and so on) but I can't see that it checks
> > > kernel configuration options (assuming that that was what you had in mind),
> > Is CONFIG_DRM set in /boot/config-2.6* ?
>
>
> The Direct Render Manager has to be active for 3D to work. I think 2D
> xrender and
> XAA should work fine, but I believe that "desktop effects" and compiz
> require 3D.
> EXA should work, but will likely be *very* slow without DRM/DRI. XV should work
> fine without DRM/DRI, but I am not sure about XVmc.
>
> Do you not use DRM/DRI?

Not needed with  vesa, nv or nvidia drivers.  3D, aiglx and xvmc all 
work like a charm with the nvidia binary driver.

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