[ltp] Is 3D possible on FireGL 5250?

Bill Moseley linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 26 May 2008 12:36:55 -0700


On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 01:25:47PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >
> > 2) Can anyone point me to a page that explains the components I just
> > installled? ;)  There seems to be a number of drivers and modules
> > working together and I'm not sure what they all do....
> 
> the diagram is a bit out of date, but should give the the basic idea:
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/images/control_flow.jpg

Thanks very much Alex for this pointer and your summary.  This page is
also very helpful, although I'm a *long* way from fully understanding
this stuff and even assigning names to things -- xgl and glx don't. ;)

    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIintro.html

Again, I used the instructions on:

    http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9951


Again, under Gutsy I had a package "xserver-xgl" installed which
I believe allowed me to run Compiz.  I was told with the new
fglrx driver that I no longer needed (or wanted) that package.
But, with the development "ati" driver do I need xserver-xgl
to use Compiz?  Is that why Compiz isn't working?

Thanks,


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