[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] Re: [Toped-development] toped on Fedora 9

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Svilen wrote:
>  As you know it was impossible to run toped on Fedora 9 with the original
>  video drivers. Vendor drivers are still not officially available.
>  That is the reason why we still don't have an RPM in FC9 repositories. 
Hello Svilen,
Toped 0.9.0 is in Fedora Repositories.

>  It was clear from the beginning that the problem was that toped
> can't
>  obtain a GLX visual with accumulation buffers. They are used for the
>  interactive graphics. A long investigation but finally something popped-up.
>
>  Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file has to be updated as shown below
>
>  Section "ServerLayout"
>         ...
>         Option         "GlxVisuals" "all"
>  EndSection
>
>  This is proved working on a platform with the ATI graphic card. I have
>  no information about nVidia platforms and whether the problem there was
>  existing on the first place.
>
>  The bad news is that the graphics still doesn't seem to be at its best,
>  so this is not the end of the road.
>
>  In case you need further info:
>
>  http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg35869.html 

I have tested on ATI (on F9)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]

Your workaround did the job. Congratulations :)

Chitlesh