[ltp] fglrx 8.19.10 and 3D Acceleration on T40p

[Florian Reitmeir]

On Mit, 23 Nov 2005, Michael Stilkerich wrote:

> fglrx 8.19.10. Suspending now works well but I lost the 3D acceleration
> (totally - not just after resuming).
> I have a T40p but a friend has a DELL Latitude D600 and exactly the same
> problems. On both laptops, 3D used to work fine until the upgrade to the latest
> fglrx.
> 
> glxgears still works and gives 1700 fps. Problems occur when trying to play any
> game (Quake3 eg does not show the main menu. Only a black screen, but you can
> hear the sound when you move the mouse). fgl_glxgears show a dark blue cube
> rotating and not a colored one, but does not report any errors.
> As i mentioned, those problems occur on both laptops even after a fresh reboot.
> 
> fglrxinfo reports
> display: :0.0  screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: FireMV 2400 PCI DDR Pentium 4 (SSE2) (FireGL) (GNU_ICD)
> OpenGL version string: 1.3.1017 (X4.3.0-8.19.10)
> 
> I'm running debian unstable.
> Has anybody else faced and possibly solved this problem?

make sure the applications use the libGL provided by the ATI driver package.
you can test this by using ldd on the executeable..

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Florian Reitmeir