On Thursday 24 June 2010 21:27:40 Alan Ianson wrote: > 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.
I like the suggestion of 'no xorg.conf' file. The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file will help troubleshoot issues. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006242203.24395.gomadtr...@gci.net
