On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 15:52:02 -0500,
> Michael Hennebry <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>>
>> *sigh*
>> I suppose I'll have to.
>> It's always a pain.
>> I prefer to climb one hill at a time.
>
> The Radeon driver and related stuff has been changing a lot over the last
> couple of years. F13 will probably work much better than F11 for your card.
> A relatively painless way to test this is to use a live image. You can
> see if there is enough improvement to warrant doing the upgrade before
> doing it.
After tremendous pain, I finally managed to install F13.
I'm still getting software rendering.
I hate this.
Has anyone *ever* used a Radeon HD 3650 AGP with linux?
If I want hardware acceleration, do I have to get yet another video card?
Is there any reason not to take a sledgehammer to the one I have?
I might have screamed too soon.
After using Xorg -configure,
I replaced the old xorg.conf with the generated version.
Does this mean I have hardware acceleration at last?
[root@localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep -e ender -e adeon
IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV635 9598) 20090101 AGP 8x TCL
[root@localhost ~]#
I haven't installed anything that would need it yet.
Should I worry that adeon didn't show up?
I still have the urge to kill something.
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Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."