[SATLUG] glxinfo Direct Rendering

[Samuel Leon]

Matt Kinsel wrote:
> So, are you saying that increasing my vertical and horizontal refresh 
> rates
> will allow DRI to load?
>
> I found something in a forum about enabling DRI that suggests going to 
> ATI (
> http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html) and getting a driver for my video
> card.  I've clicked "Linux x86" and "Mobility Radeon", but which 
> driver do I
> pick out of those?  All 'lspci' gives me is
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M
> AGP 2x (rev 64)
>
> How can I find more detailed information about my card so that I know 
> which
> driver to download?
>
>

I hate to say this as it is not very professional...

Since I have no idea what your hardware is, trouble shooting can be very 
tricky.  From the errors you reported in the earlier post it looks like 
your monitor is not being recognized.  I think the easiest thing to do 
would be to boot up a live cd and compare that xorg file with the one 
you have in FC.  Try the live ubuntu cd. 
<http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu//6.06/ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso> 
Don't worry it won't mess with your hard drive and runs in the ram.  
Once it boots up make your way to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Copy it, write it 
down, save it to cd-r or what ever.  Compare it to the one that FC 
generated.  It might have some extra info about your monitor, or other 
stuff. 

Since you are using that old rage3d card the "ati" driver will be fine 
in xorg.  No need to try and compile drivers from ati.com.  You can get 
dri with the open source ati xorg driver we just have to figure out what 
is preventing it from enabling automatically...

This is the best way I can think to explain to you without confusing the 
heck out of you. ;-)

And if you will, send me the /var/log/xorg.log files from FC and any 
other distribution you might try.

Sam