Radeon 9250 in Ubuntu

[smithveg]

Hmm.. Thank to your reply, I will try google earth. Can the google earth
tell me this?
tell me i have 3d accelerator, because i never use google earth before. And
i also don't know what is the purpose for me to use it. How about you? you
use it for whaT?
Check your girl friends house? :P

Anyway, Thanks yuor replies

On 10/24/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
>
> smithveg <smithveg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Finally, you come back again. Malaysia time is 1.15AM now.
>
> Your turn ! ;-)
>
> > No, how i know i have 3D acceration.
>
> I have already explained you this...
>
> > this is the setting in xorg.conf,
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier    "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
> >     Driver        "Radeon"
> >     BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
> > EndSection
>
>
> That is correct.
>
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > No matter i use ati or Radeon, grep rendering also tell me 'Yes', Why?
>
> In Dapper I have to explicitly load the Radeon driver, but I just
> tried in Edgy, and indeed the 'ati' drivers works too. Don't worry... I
> think it's just that the 'ati' driver is a wrapper for all sorts of
> cards. It used to be that the radeon driver had to be called
> explicitly, but not anymore in Edgy as it happens. No big deal, just
> makes things easier ! :o)
>
> > This is what i see, I can not see any Radeon words.
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > veg at veg-desktop:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
> > direct rendering: Yes
>
> That's normal ! ;-)
>
> glxinfo, as its name suggest, gives info about the GLX stuff,
> not about hardware details ! ;-)
> So that's normal, don't worry...
>
> > I really have a 3D acceleration install?
>
> YES !!!! :o)
>
> > I can't believe it,
>
> You can believe it !  ;-)
>
> > because my machine can not prove it to me, :)
>
> You mean, 3D stuff is slow ? Yes, as I told you in a previous message,
> the free driver is slow as hell, but it's still useable. I just tried
> Googleearth a minute ago to check that the ati/radeon driver was
> working... and it does work.
>
> Again, if you want fast 3D acceleration for 3D heavy games, you better
> change your video card altogether for something newer, with
> better/more efficient drivers. Ask people about what to chose, I am
> sure you will be flooded with advises and experiences ;-)
>
> --
> Vince
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