> >well, I am running RedHat 9 with a Radeon 7000. Redhat can > >detect the device (so it does indeed look supported) but I can't > >get direct rendering (or any other sort of 3d hardware > >acceleration) working. > > It is definitely supported. I can say that with extremely high > degree of confidence because I am the Red Hat XFree86 maintainer, > and have been for 3 years. So I very much know what hardware is > supported, and have tested it and use it daily personally. > > Are you using the Red Hat supplied kernel, or your own custom > kernel? 3D works out of the box without any special fooling > around. No custom kernel, and I have recently run up2date so my kernel is 2.4.20-20.9, from redhat. > > >I've tried installing dri, but it all it does is cause segfaults > >when I try to run glxgears. I've gone through every trouble > >shooting tip and nothing seems to work. > > You don't need to install anything special or really do anything > at all out of the ordinary. > > The only possible explanation I can remotely think of which would > result in 3D not working would be: > > 1) If your motherboard's AGP chipset does not have kernel agpgart > support, or if it is experimental and requires the kernel > agp_unsupported=1 commandline option. In this case, it is > your motherboard chipset that isn't officially supported, > however enabling this might allow you to use 3D. > Yes it is an AGP. I will try this option and let you know. err... I guess I would add it to the Xfree86Config file in the device section as...? thanks, sol _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
