radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 15:52:02 -0500,
>>  Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> *sigh*
>>> I suppose I'll have to.
>>> It's always a pain.
>>> I prefer to climb one hill at a time.
>>
>> The Radeon driver and related stuff has been changing a lot over the last
>> couple of years. F13 will probably work much better than F11 for your card.
>> A relatively painless way to test this is to use a live image. You can
>> see if there is enough improvement to warrant doing the upgrade before
>> doing it.
>
> After tremendous pain, I finally managed to install F13.
> I'm still getting software rendering.
> I hate this.
> Has anyone *ever* used a Radeon HD 3650 AGP with linux?
> If I want hardware acceleration, do I have to get yet another video card?
> Is there any reason not to take a sledgehammer to the one I have?

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 at localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep -e ender -e adeon
> IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV635 9598) 20090101 AGP 8x  TCL
> [root at localhost ~]#
I haven't installed anything that would need it yet.
Should I worry that adeon didn't show up?

I still have the urge to kill something.

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Optimist:   The glass is half full.
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