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I have been running Ubuntu Hardy on a Sony PCG-F540 for a couple of months now. Everything seems to be working OK but running lshw makes me question my video driver. I installed the X.Org X server -- Neomagic display driver but it is listed as "unclaimed"
to see more info. The first one should show you detailed info about the video device, including what driver/kernel module is associated with it. The second command shows you all of the modules currently loaded into the kernel, so you can verify that the one you are checking on, is there (or is not there!)
PS - On Ubuntu, you may need to use `sudo` for one or both of these, for root privilege.
Well, it does seem to be giving me 2D accelleration, but not 3D. I believe the card is capable, How can I get 3D accelleration working? It looks like the framebuffer is being used. If I run glxinfo, it reports
direct rendering: no. (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
This is telling you to create an environment variable with this information. You would do this by going to a console and typing "export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose" and that will give you more detailed output for why its not working. Also the neomagic driver is a X windows driver not a kernel module so I don't think it gets loaded in a way that you can find it with lsmod. Then again I could be wrong since the only external driver I have ever had to use was for nvidia and that has a separate installer altogether. At least for 3d acceleration, I kinda try and keep everything I own with nvidia products since they are so well supported. I actually had not heard of neomagic and had to look them up in a google search. Alot of what I found was very old like circa 1998 stuff, and the only rummings of any sorta accelerated driver was in regards to a special redhat driver and no where else. It is possible that the 3d acceleration was never implemented and only 2d was achieved by the driver in xwindows. This normally occurs when the device manufacutre would not realse chip specs so that one can be either developed or would not release a binary driver that can be loaded ( like in the case for nvidia tho I thought I remember something that said they finally gave up what was needed for devs to make a 3d accelerated driver separate from the one on there page )
Last edited by exvor; 11-27-2009 at 06:23 PM.
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