ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

[Don Quixote de la Mancha]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Suvayu Ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 11 February 2010 06:04 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> AFAIK, the radeon driver doesn't support 3D acceleration for HD4*** family of
>> cards. and that is probably the reason why tuxracer doesn't work. However, I
>> don't know why glxinfo reports that direct rendering is active in this case.
>
> If the OP is on F12, he can try mesa-dri-drivers-experimental for 3D
> support on a RV770.

I'm happy to give it a try.

However, I am still on F11.  I have been hesitant to upgrade, as
everything - with the exception of 3D accelleration - has been working
really well.

Maybe it's just paranoia, but from watching this list, I have the
sense that upgrading to F12 can break a lot of things.  Is that the
case, or would I be OK to upgrade?

I started with F10, then used whatever that tool is, that looks at all
your installed packages to see what needs to be upgraded, and
downloads them all.  I expect I'll use that again when I go to F12.

Do Quixote.
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