Zubin Bharucha wrote:
>I installed the ATI Radeon drivers using
>
> yum install ati-fglrx kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r)
>
> However, when I run "glxgears" I see no acceleration.
According to this page:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=300
(under Product Features)
only the Radeon 8500 and later are supported by the proprietary ATI
driver (fglrx). The open source radeon driver provided with X.Org should
give you the 3D acceleration that you want. Just try using the
Option "DRI"
like this (edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf):
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Radeon 7000"
Option "DRI" <-------------------------
EndSection
Then you might want to look into the DRI configuration app:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriConf
Keep and eye out for this if you are using an SMP kernel:
Bugzilla Bug 138539 (Radeon 7000 DRI SMP) deadlock
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138539
Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer
