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From: Alan Ianson on 24 Jun 2010 22:40 Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration everything seems to run slowly. I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that simply loads the nvidia driver and that worked well for the nvidia card. I changed "nvidia" to "ati" in xorg.conf and the desktop comes up OK but 3D acceleration doesn't seem to work. Any ideas on what I need to change? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1277433499.3061.9.camel(a)debian.ok.shawcable.net
From: Greg Madden on 25 Jun 2010 00:00 On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > Hi List! > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks > good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration > everything seems to run slowly. > > I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that simply loads the nvidia > driver and that worked well for the nvidia card. I changed "nvidia" to > "ati" in xorg.conf and the desktop comes up OK but 3D acceleration > doesn't seem to work. > > Any ideas on what I need to change? You need the Radeon driver, not ATI. There might be some related glx package. I use mesa-utils to test , glxgears. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006241958.45942.gomadtroll(a)gci.net
From: Mike Castle on 25 Jun 2010 00:30 On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Alan Ianson <agianson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Any ideas on what I need to change? I just switched to not using any xorg.conf at all, which I think is the ``new'' recommendation. I put new in quotes because I think I saw someone at work the other day say something like ``You've not needed one for five years,'' but I may not have had the context right. So far so good, with two machines with different NVidia cards using nouveau and one using radeon. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTim4c6s16ZltCEBqxUGP_-3SF8CWQ_M9lLZNlbjl(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Alan Ianson on 25 Jun 2010 01:30 On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > Hi List! > > > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks > > good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration > > everything seems to run slowly. > > > > I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that simply loads the nvidia > > driver and that worked well for the nvidia card. I changed "nvidia" to > > "ati" in xorg.conf and the desktop comes up OK but 3D acceleration > > doesn't seem to work. > > > > Any ideas on what I need to change? > > You need the Radeon driver, not ATI. There might be some related glx package. > I use mesa-utils to test , glxgears. Thanks for the info, I changed it to radeon, still no 3D acceleration though and glxgears gives me a segmentation fault.. maybe there is a bug in radeon ATM, I'm not sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1277443660.7801.2.camel(a)debian.ok.shawcable.net
From: Greg Madden on 25 Jun 2010 02:10
On Thursday 24 June 2010 21:27:40 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > > > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks > > > good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D > > > acceleration everything seems to run slowly. > > > > > > I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that simply loads the nvidia > > > driver and that worked well for the nvidia card. I changed "nvidia" to > > > "ati" in xorg.conf and the desktop comes up OK but 3D acceleration > > > doesn't seem to work. > > > > > > Any ideas on what I need to change? > > > > You need the Radeon driver, not ATI. There might be some related glx > > package. I use mesa-utils to test , glxgears. > > Thanks for the info, I changed it to radeon, still no 3D acceleration > though and glxgears gives me a segmentation fault.. maybe there is a bug > in radeon ATM, I'm not sure. I like the suggestion of 'no xorg.conf' file. The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file will help troubleshoot issues. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006242203.24395.gomadtroll(a)gci.net |