On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:30:10 -0500,
Michael Hennebry <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
I believe that indicates that at least some level of hardware rendering
is used.
>> 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?
No. That command is getting information about how much of opengl is supported
and the hardware manufacturer isn't needed. Though RV635 is the chip that
is the main part of your video card.
You can look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you want to see the words ati and
radeon.
Thanks. I should have remembered.
This mess has my brain in about the same condition as Einstein's.
> I still have the urge to kill something.
Try install a FPS (such as nexuiz) and you can kill two birds with one stone.
No matter how many frames per second I get out of the card,
it won't replace the joy of manually reducing something's necksize.
On that subject, I think FC11 is still overclocking the card.
How do I tell it not to?
Also, a problem I've had forever seems to be worse with FC13.
With FC13, I only get to see about a quarter of
a character on the left edge of the screen.
In the past, I've tried adjusting the monitor, but eventually gave up.
The problem occurs in both text and graphical modes.
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Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."