I've done some searching, and dug up different pieces of information on several old threads. Rather than posting 3 or 4 questions on 3 or 4 threads, I thought I would create a new thread here.
First of all, I see some threads referring to the "radeon" driver, and some referring to something called "fglrx". What is the difference?
Here are the module and graphics device sections of my XF86Config. I don't know what to add/remove from the XF86Config file because I have searched and found so many varying configurations, some using the radeon driver, and some using this fglrx thing I know nothing about, and I am truly lost as to what I need to define and what I maybe need to comment out.
Code:
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Next, should I have the
modprobe agpgart line uncommented in the rc.modules file? Is there anything else I need to uncomment or add?
And I also came across
this post saying that I need to recompile my kernel with DRM/Radeon support as a module. I'm not sure what he means by this, I checked the .config in the kernel source directory and I don't see any lines about DRM. On top of that I've never compiled a kernel so I'm gonna have to read up on that.
Anyways, any info that any of you could provide to get me on the way to getting this thing working would be much appreciated.