OpenGL on Radeon 7000/VE ?

[P Kapat]

Thanks to all.... Here are some more inputs...

Clay:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:09 PM, claydoh <claydoh at midmaine.com> wrote:
> look here for info:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
>
> Your card has full 3d support using the opensource 'ati' built-in driver, so
> most likely you shouldn't have to do any driver fiddling
> The fglrx does not support your card afaik.

Reading up the the above link, I think so too. Let us see how it works out.

> I suggest undoing anything you have done driver-wise and reverting to a stock
> xorg.conf and run the command 'glxinfo' to see if it is working.

OK, I removed the one line (Driver "radeon") that I had added. I am
attaching the xorg.conf (which is practically empty) and a stripped
down version of Xorg.0.log (blame me if I snipped off any important
line and kept the unimportant ones). I have added some comments (look
for '## <<<<<<<<<'  at the end of some lines). The main points are
these:

1. The "glx" module being loaded is from vendor="NVIDIA Corporation".
I guess this is a hangover from my earlier driver. `dpkg -l | grep
nvidia` shows:

ii  nvidia-glx-new
ii  nvidia-kernel-common
ii  nvidia-settings

The only one (EE) line in the log seems to support this surmise.
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)

Am I right? Solution? Purge nvidia-*?

2. Which actual driver is being used to drive the video card is not
clear to me. Looking into Xog.0.log, I see that  all the three --
"ati", "radeon", and "int10", drivers are being loaded!!! I have
marked those lines in the attached log (look for ## <<<<<<<<<).

Also here is the glxinfo output:

$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 24 dc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x55 32 tc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None


David: (I think John was suggesting this too)
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:24 PM, david <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> kmenu->system->hardware drivers manager
>
> put a checkmark in the box next to your probed ati video card

There is nothing in there... empty => no proprietary cards??

Alan,:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Alan Dacey <GrokIt at ajinfosearch.com> wrote:
> According to Wikipedia it supports OpenGL 1.3
>   -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R100
>
> Have you tried Envy?

Thanks for the wikipedia link, the information there also says that my
card 'should' have full 3d support. For the Envy, you are right, the
packages are envyng-{gtk,qt,core}. I'll try them if I need the
proprietary fglrx drivers. They are only for the prop-binary drivers,
right?

-- 
Regards
PK
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