[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Holly Bostick <motub <at> planet.nl> writes:


> Well, depending on which ATI video card you have, the ati-driver package
> may be the only one which supplies OpenGL for your video card's chipset
> (above the 9250 must use the drivers, 9250 and below can use the kernel
> 'radeon' driver and X.org MESA to get OpenGL support). So if you're
> getting an error in OpenGL, that may be because you have no video
> drivers with OpenGL support installed.

lscpi reveals:

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf
[Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01)


So I need to add MESA to get OpenGL fixed?
media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 6.4
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

Any other way to get opengl working with the radeon kernel driver?

Should/can I use ati-drivers? or should I stick with the radeon
supplied binary driver?


James



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