Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP -- SOLVED!!!

[Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>]

On 07/03/07 06:17 Drew Tomlinson said the following:

> I have a laptop with  ATI integrated graphics.  lspci shows the 
> graphics card as:
>
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon 
> Xpress 1100 IGP]
>
> I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this 
> card with dri enabled.  I followed the guides at:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml
>
> and I've also Googled for a week with no success.  With the x11 
> drivers installed, I get this error message when starting X:
>
> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
>
> I've emerged ati-drivers and set make.conf to include the fglrx driver 
> as suggested in the ATI guide.  However when loading the fglrx.ko 
> module, I get an error about "...taints the kernel".  Thus I suspect I 
> have some option set in my kernel that conflicts with the fglrx module?
>
> I'm at a loss.  Can some kind soul please point me in the right 
> direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my 
> laptop?  Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers?  And if ATI drivers, 
> any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? 


Seems the module was never loading due to a conflict because DRI was 
compiled into the kernel.  I had read that I needed to disable that 
option which I did and recompiled the kernel (over and over again).  
However the one step I missed was copying the newly compiled kernel from 
the source directory to the /boot directory.

Oh the answers are always so simple...  It's finding them that's tough.  :)

Drew

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