[ltp] DRI/OpenGL with radeon driver

Christopher Sawtell linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:46:21 +1200


On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:09, Fran=E7ois Fleuret wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> <Tino Keitel> wrote on 31 Aug 2005 20:08:48 MET:
> > If your card is newer than Radeon 9200, then you need either the fglrx
> > driver from ATI or the one from http://r300.sourceforge.net/.
>
> When I try to apply the patch provided on that site to a 2.6.13
> kernel, I am being told that it has already been patched.
>
> Since the kernel is more recent then the one for which the patch is
> provided (2.6.9), does it mean that it actually includes the changes,
yes.

> or is the patch command messing up and claiming the changes are
> included while they are not ?
Almost certainly not.

> In any case, with that kernel (2.6.13) on my T41p, I still do not have
> the direct rendering.
The driver should be compiled as modules and make sure they are loaded in t=
he=20
correct order. vis:-

intel-agp
agpgart
radeon
radeonfb

=2D-=20
CS