[ltp] X31 xfree with 3D support

David linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:27:48 +0100


Thanx, I will try this.

Sorry, I forgot to tell you that I've a Radeon M6 card....

will write my results later

david


> David wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > another Problem ...
> > 
> > I don't get 3D support in X!
> > 
> 
> You need ATI's binary only driver called FGLRX.
> 
> www.ati.com, drivers and software, choose linux, choose graphics driver, 
> and choose any video card on the list (The driver is the same for all of 
> them). Then click go.
> 
> On the next screen it will ask you to select your version of XFree. Then 
> you download an RPM. How your distribution deals with RPMs is another 
> discussion. I use gentoo and I used rpm2targz to convert it to a targz 
> file. I believe in Debian you can use alien to convert it.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> -- 
> Daniel Jimenez <djimenez[at]pobox[dot]com>
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