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OpenGL Direct Rendering on ATI x1300 - BenO169 - 2007-08-29
Hey all
I have an ATI X1300 gfx card. I know that Linux hates ATI for some reason (proprietary drivers etc...). ALL of the Ubuntu forums say that you can't get OpenGL direct rendering going on most ATI cards. When I run 'glxinfo' I get Direct Rendering = No. Also when I run my freshly compiled XBMC I get a segmentation fault and I'm almost postative that it is for this reason. I was able to run it after I compiled it in 2d. Woof. I need my 3d rendering. And I have tried a coupple of half-solutions and I ended up breaking my X-server . So after that babble here is my question:
Has anyone gotten OpenGL 3D direct rendering working with an ATI gfx card? Thank you for any help!
P.S. I have also ran envy already and this hasn't found the correct drivers.
- jmarshall - 2007-08-29
Mine works fine (ATI X1600 laptop) using the ATI proprietary drivers. It doesn't have some of the niftier GL2.0 stuff available, but it <used> to work fine (haven't tested in the last week or 2)
You can grab the ATI drivers direct from their website:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html
I haven't tried 8.40.4 as yet, and am using 8.37.* IIRC.
Cheers,
Jonathan
- BenO169 - 2007-09-01
Thank you for the quick reply jmarshall! I'll try and get these drivers going on my laptop. When it is time to get an XBMC box, I think I'm gonna go with NVidia
