[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 10/14/2010 04:23 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> Forgot one last thing.  After you do what I described in my other post,
>> make sure to execute:
>>
>> eselect opengl set ati
>>
>>
> Hi Nikos,
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> I think that the instructions that you're providing, however, are for
> the closed source ATI driver.  I've already battled unsuccessfully with
> that driver via OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, Fedora and gentoo, so I'm trying to
> configure using the open source Radeon driver instead, with reference to
> this wiki here
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon

You mentioned that you used "fglrxinfo" in your post, which assumes 
you're using the closed source driver :-/  Another hint was that you're 
using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the 
open source drivers anyway at this point.

Anyway, if you're on open source drivers, I think that's your problem. 
Only the closed source driver works correctly with 3D for HD5000 cards 
at this moment.