no 3D support in xorg-x11 packages - fact or fiction?

ByteEnable ByteEnable at austin.rr.com
Wed Apr 7 17:40:36 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:19, Trond Are Haugland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:52:09PM -0700, Richard Gardner wrote:
> > 3D support is not available in xorg-x11 or XFree86 4.4.x.. via this one
> > reference:
>
> My guess is support for ATI direct rendering has been dropped, so you'll
> need to download the official drivers from ATI, those should work fine
> anyways.
>
> I have an NVIDIA myself, here's my output:
>
> [~]$ glxinfo | grep direct
> direct rendering: Yes
>
> --
> Trond Are Haugland <trondare at trolltech.com>
> Phone: +47 21 60 48 83
> Trolltech AS

ATI drivers are in the X.Org package.  I'm using the ATI driver on my laptop 
now.  The only problem I have is that the package from FC development does 
not run with DRI (libatidri error on X start) when I compile the src rpm.  It 
works with non-DRI.  I'm running FC1 not FC2 by the way.

Byte





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