Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati
On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc
> RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks
> good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration
> everything seems to run slowly.
>
> I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that simply loads the nvidia
> driver and that worked well for the nvidia card. I changed "nvidia" to
> "ati" in xorg.conf and the desktop comes up OK but 3D acceleration
> doesn't seem to work.
>
> Any ideas on what I need to change?
You need the Radeon driver, not ATI. There might be some related glx package.
I use mesa-utils to test , glxgears.
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Peace,
Greg
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