On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 15:52:02 -0500, >> Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> *sigh* >>> I suppose I'll have to. >>> It's always a pain. >>> I prefer to climb one hill at a time. >> >> The Radeon driver and related stuff has been changing a lot over the last >> couple of years. F13 will probably work much better than F11 for your card. >> A relatively painless way to test this is to use a live image. You can >> see if there is enough improvement to warrant doing the upgrade before >> doing it. > > After tremendous pain, I finally managed to install F13. > I'm still getting software rendering. > I hate this. > Has anyone *ever* used a Radeon HD 3650 AGP with linux? > If I want hardware acceleration, do I have to get yet another video card? > Is there any reason not to take a sledgehammer to the one I have? I might have screamed too soon. After using Xorg -configure, I replaced the old xorg.conf with the generated version. Does this mean I have hardware acceleration at last? > [root@localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep -e ender -e adeon > IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0 > direct rendering: Yes > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV635 9598) 20090101 AGP 8x TCL > [root@localhost ~]# I haven't installed anything that would need it yet. Should I worry that adeon didn't show up? I still have the urge to kill something. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
