Using ATI Radeon 7000

Tue Oct 18 07:53:01 UTC 2005

Zubin Bharucha wrote:
>I installed the ATI Radeon drivers using
> 
> yum install ati-fglrx kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r)
> 
> However, when I run "glxgears" I see no acceleration.

According to this page:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=300

(under Product Features)

only the Radeon 8500 and later are supported by the proprietary ATI 
driver (fglrx). The open source radeon driver provided with X.Org should 
give you the 3D acceleration that you want. Just try using the

Option "DRI"

like this (edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf):

Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
         Driver      "radeon"
         VendorName  "ATI"
         BoardName   "Radeon 7000"
	Option	    "DRI"	<-------------------------
EndSection

Then you might want to look into the DRI configuration app:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriConf

> Thanks,
> Zubin

HTH,
-M