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[Jim Flanagan <linuxjim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BandiPat wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote:
>   
>> Hi Lee,
>>
>> My xorg.cong contains all these lines, except the "dri". The others
>> are there, but not in the same order. Does that matter? I have not
>> added "dri" yet, should I?
>>
>> Sax2 is detecting my 9800 Pro as R350 NH. I believe that is correct.
>> The 3D box is grayed out, don't have access to it.  I do have a spare
>> 9200 laying around that I could throw in this machine if that would
>> help, but from what you indicated the 9800 Pro should work well with
>> the default drivers. With the default install I was only getting
>> about 23fps in glxgears, way too slow for this card. That is why I
>> was trying to install the ATI drivers. Since then I can't run either
>> glxgears or fglrxgears. And other stuff is not right, like
>> screensaver.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Jim F
>>     
>
> =========
> No, it doesn't matter in what order they are in, but all of them should 
> be there!  Sounds like it is seeing the card correctly and I'm pretty 
> sure that card is supported.  What version of xorg are you running?  If 
> it's the build that came with 10.0, that version may not support that 
> card fully, but will do excellent 2d.  That may be your problem and the 
> reason the 3D box is greyed out to you.  I do believe 7.1 and above 
> supports the 9800 fully though.  I'll look in the changelog to see what 
> it says.
>
> Either way, you should be able to add the "dri" module to get some 3D 
> now, although it may not be exceptional, it should still work.
>
> good luck,
> Lee
>   
Hi all,

I will try adding the "dri" now. I had previously updated all xorg stuff
to the latest, which it got from one of the sources I added, (I believe
from ftp.gwdg.de..., but not sure). The version for xorg now is
7.2-146.7-i586.

Will revert.

Jim F
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