On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Adam Carter <adam.car...@optus.com.au> wrote: >> > DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers -> Graphics -> >> Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the >> correct ATI support under that. >> >> That's always been there, as modules. If I modprobe for r128, it gets >> loaded along with module "drm". It makes no difference to the startx >> behavior. > > Do the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so and libdri.so files exist?
That directory has: treat extensions # ls -l total 220 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17836 2009-05-25 09:04 libdbe.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2009-05-25 09:15 libdri.so -> //usr//lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 125416 2009-05-25 09:04 libextmod.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2009-05-25 09:15 libglx.so -> //usr//lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26024 2009-05-25 09:04 librecord.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36428 2009-05-25 09:04 libxtrap.so drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2009-05-25 11:10 tmp drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-25 11:10 var but /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions has NOTHING in it. > > For me, > libdri.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so > libglx.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so (since > you havent run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be set to > /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so). > >> > Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? >> > >> there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11. xorg-x11 is selected. > > If you're using flgrx you want 'eselect opengl set ati', but again I thought > 2D would work fine without this. Actually, I think fglrx is from ati-driver, which is for a different card. Anyway, I would expect X to start somehow. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
