Radeon 9250 in Ubuntu

[Vincent Trouilliez]

smithveg <smithveg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, guy, after i uninstall something, i can not go into desktop anymore,
> the graphic setting went crazy. No way, i reformat, and reinstall ubuntu.

Wow, how extreme, that's the Windows way ! ;o)
Anyway, now it's done...

> Now i have a new installation. Can you tell me what to do first. Now, i go
> to terminal, change the Device->driver-> from 'ati' to 'radeon'
> Then i restart, then i type glxinfo | grep rendering. It give me many many
> code as below,

Strange, the "grep rendering" part of the command is supposed to filter all that text and display the interesting line...

> #######################
> veg at veg-desktop:~$ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes

... but nevermind: as you can see above, it does say "Direct rendering: Yes", so you have 3D acceleration now, congratulation, you have succeeded ! :-)


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Vince