Graphics Acceleration

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Jun 19 00:55:54 UTC 2005


Nathan Bullock wrote:

>I have just installed FC4, I was previously using FC2,
>and I noticed that graphics acceleration is not being
>used, just wondering how you turn it on?
>
>In FC2 there was a video card config tool, I can't
>seem to find it anymore.
>
>In case it matters I have a radeon 7200.
>
>Nathan Bullock
>
>  
>
redhat-config-xfree86 became system-config-display from FC2 along with 
all other redhat-config-* packages changed names to system-config-*
xfree86.conf became xorg.conf

Regarding the radeon 7200 card, be thankful it does not lockup on you. I 
had lockups with the radeon 7200 PCI card during the testing stage of 
FC3. I gave the card to someone who runs another OS who had a failure of 
his existing card. I quit tracking the card problems thereafter.

If system-config-display cannot  setup graphics acceleration, it is 
probably due to the potential lockup of the 7200 during bootup.

You can check your /etc/xorg.conf for comparison with the FC2 
xfree86.conf file to see anty differences.

If this is wrong, I have not used FC2 since FC3 came out. (probably 
since test versions came out)

Jim

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