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Old 12-11-2006, 04:16 PM   #1
daniel1979
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ATI Crazyness


Hey all, I was just checking things out on my system and noticed something strange. According to glxinfo and opengl monitor under system my system is using to ATI driver. But according to graphics card and monitor under Yast2 I am useing Mesa.. Also, useing glxgears I am getting about 200fps. Is that good or bad? System info is a follows...... AMD Athlon XP 2000+ cpu, ATI X1300 Pro video card with 256 megabytes of video ram, 1.5 gigs system ram, 160 gigs HDD, Sb Audigy 2 sound card, SuSE linux 10.1 with Gnome Desktop.........

Now, I can play 3d games with no problem, but I can not use XGL 3D desktop but it says that I don't have 3D and it says that my card isnt supported, which is strange to say the least because I installed Sabayon linux on a seperate smaller HDD and the 3D desktop worked just fine using the same card.

Im just confused, any opinions or fixes?????????????????????
 
Old 12-12-2006, 09:17 AM   #2
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cat /etc/X11/Xorg.conf | grep Driver

Is the video driver "radeon" or "fglrx" ?

radeon is the free driver

fglrx is the ATI Proprietary driver

XGL won't work with the radeon driver..
 
Old 12-12-2006, 09:38 AM   #3
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You're simply using the open source drivers. No 3D avaible with them. You can try installing the proprietary drivers, but find a good instruction before. One for YOUR distribution, expect problems otherwise ...
 
  


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