Enabling Direct Rendering...

BobCobb · 09-28-2005, 07:14 PM

I have followed what the guy said to do in this thread, but I still can't get my ATI card to work.

I have an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY, on my Compaq laptop. I have installed the common and radeon DRI drivers, editted my xorg.conf accordingly, and I even recompiled a new kernel to make sure DRM and AGP were built in. However I still get direct rendering = no from glxinfo, and apparently it is still using the Mesa drivers. I'm lost and have no idea what to do. Can someone help me for the love of god?

mebrelith · 09-28-2005, 08:40 PM

Not exactly sure but I think that if you install the drivers drom another source (as I think youve done) you actually have to disable the one that comes with kernel. ATI drivers are famous for being problematic for Linux users. Good luck.

BobCobb · 09-28-2005, 08:50 PM

When I am recompiling my kernel should I enable DRM as built in or module? And should I enable my chipset?