Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

[John Lange <john.lange@open-it.ca>]

Ok! Thanks to all who offered suggestions. I finally got it working.

Bottom line was, you need to re-emerge Xorg to get it working.

I noticed this line while emerging xorg:

* Switching to ati OpenGL interface...
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...

I then re-emerged the ati-drivers which turned out to be a mistake.
During my desperate attempts to get it working I forgot I had installed
the drivers which I downloaded directly from ATI. So re-emerging the
ati-drivers which are a few versions behind the official drivers caused
a "incompatible kernel module, direct rendering will not work" error
when starting X.

No problem, I simply re-installed the drivers downloaded direct from ATI
and now everything is working including direct rendering!

I think some notes should be made on the ATI-FAQ about re-emerging Xorg.
I'll send a note to wedge__ AT fastmail.fm.

-- 
John Lange


On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 04:38 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: 
> John Lange:
> > Note the dates in:
> >
> > /usr/lib/modules/extensions/
> > -r--r--r--  1 root root  16580 Apr 10 17:38 libdbe.a
> > -r--r--r--  1 root root  32470 Apr 10 17:38 libdri.a
> > -r--r--r--  1 root root 167396 Apr 10 17:38 libextmod.a
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 651460 Apr 10 18:20 libglx.so.1.0.7174
> > -r--r--r--  1 root root  25688 Apr 10 17:38 librecord.a
> > -r--r--r--  1 root root  39306 Apr 10 17:38 libxtrap.a
> >
> > nothing new in a while.... Does Xorg need to be re-emerged to get
> > this working?
> 
> I think so. My dates (as you can see in my previuos message) are "Aug 
> 6".
> Looking for "Aug 06" in /var/log/emerge.log, I've found:
> - nvidia-kernel: not emerged on Aug 6
> - nvidia-glx: not emerged on Aug 6
> - opengl-update: not emerged on Aug 6
> - xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2: emerged on Aug 6
> 
> HTH
> Sergio


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