OpenGL on Radeon 7000/VE ?

[P Kapat]

Hello All,

Due to reason most unfortunate, my evga (nVidia) video card died and I
am forced to use an old ATI video card:

$ sudo lspci -vv -d 1002:5159
01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100
QY [Radeon 7000/VE] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 7000
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
        Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at feaf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Again for some reason or the other I have always had a nvidia card, so
my knowledge regarding ATI cards are at best "noob." With recent
"advances" in xorg, the xorg.conf file is practically empty, though I
have put a
Driver  "radeon"
line in the Device section.

Q1: Is it possible to get OpenGL working with this old card? If so,
what options/driver should I add to xorg.conf. Do the proprietery ATI
drivers support this old card?

Q2: Looking into Xorg.0.log, I see that the system is trying to load
the "glx" extension, giving the following error:
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)

Should I blacklist "glx" in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist?

Thanks for the support. If it matters, I am running Hardy/KDE 3.5.10
with KDE 4.1 packages from ppa repositories.
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Regards
PK
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