On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:31, Mark Roach wrote: > Hi folks, I am trying to understand how to get opengl working on my > compaq evo n1000v laptop with radeon M7 LW (7500) and it seems pretty > confusing. Can someone break it down for me a little bit? Here's what my > current understanding is: > > A kernel module is required, my kernel (2.4.22) includes a radeon > module, will this do, or do I need one from somewhere else? > > I need a recent XFree86, I've got 4.3.0 prev1 from experimental, but I > keep reading about DRI trunk, and I don't know what I should be using > > I have the xlibmesa-* packages installed which is what I understand I > need > > What's next? From what I can tell, I do not actually have accelerated > graphics working... glxinfo gives this: > libGL error: InitDriver failed > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: No > server glx vendor string: SGI > server glx version string: 1.2 > > Any suggestions or documentation anyone can give would be much > appreciated, documentation especially as I would like to actually > understand how all this stuff works...
Hi Mark, Add this to your sources.list: # DRI deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./ and apt-get drm-trunk-module-src. Then read all about this in /usr/share/doc/drm-trunk-module-src. Good luck, David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
