On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:55 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:46 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > > > - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video > > > card, change the Driver line from > > > Driver "ati" > > > to > > > Driver "fglrx" > > > > > > And then reboot. > > > > Are you a windows support person... > > Are you a big hairy troll? > > > ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X server. > > > > gdm will create a new version with the new settings. > > That's fine unless you happen to be using DRI, which the ati module > usually does, the the fglrx module almost always does. In that case you > also need to unload and reload appropriate kernel modules. I could have > given a step by step list on how to do that, too, but I didn't.
Ooo, bugger. That reminds me. In addition to the xorg-driver-fglrx package, you'll need the restricted modules package for the kernel version you're using - in my case it was linux-restricted-modules-686. Substitute -386 or -k7 as appropriate. Sorry for the minor misdirection, Bruce. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
