On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:19:34 -0700, James wrote in message <1247764774.10855.21.ca...@fedora-11a>:
> I have purchased a new Dell laptop which has an ATI Radeon Mobility HD > 3670 vido card installed. > > I've placed FEDORA 11 (32 bit) on it and downloaded Flightgear which > fails to run. (I also tried the Fedora 11, 64 bit version with the > same result) > > Problem is that the drivers that I have do not support hardware accel. ..huh??? You did try your distro's X.org radeon driver? http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonProgram ( Or X.org's radeonhd driver? http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd ) > I've downloaded what I think is the correct driver installation > package from ATI, but after installing it I lost the video display! > > (What I have is " ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run ".) > > I uninstalled it (with some difficulty) and now have the display back, > but (of course) Flightgear still is inop. > > Has anyone had any luck in getting this card to work? > Any thoughts will be appreciated! ..looks like the X.org crowd has, but beware that this is work in progress. ..an alias idea ready for cut-n-pasting: alias aiglxbenchmark='w ; cat /proc/version ;cat /proc/pci \ |grep VGA ||lspci |grep VGA |colrm 1 4 ;cat /proc/cpuinfo \ |egrep "model name|MHz|bogomips" ;xdpyinfo |egrep \ "version:|dimensions|depth of" ;glxinfo |egrep -A2 \ "direct rendering|OpenGL vendor" ;cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log \ |grep architecture ;cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep flip \ ;glxgears -info & sleep 51 ;killall glxgears ;w ;glxgears \ -fullscreen & sleep 51 ;killall glxgears ;w ' -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
