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Re: ATI FireGL V5200, proprietary and open source drivers



On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 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.

Interesting, it looks like the nvidia binary drivers do their own thing. And of
course vesa and nv have no 3D.


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