Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the info, I changed it to radeon, still no 3D acceleration
though and glxgears gives me a segmentation fault.. maybe there is a bug
in radeon ATM, I'm not sure.
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