FC2 T2 and ATI fglrx

[Chris McDonough]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 08:06, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 02:59, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 03:56, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > > Try using the open source 'ati' driver instead of 'vesa'. Works for me
> > > on my eMachines M6807 w/ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility M10. Won't help much
> > > for the 3D, but gives you 2D acceleration. 
> > 
> > Thanks!  You don't happen to have a URL handy to point me in the right
> > direction, do you?
> 
> I think he Chris means to switch your vesa driver in the config file to
> the radeon (the one X.org/XFree comes with) driver and try using it.

Got it, thanks.. For stupid reasons, I thought it was more complicated
than that.  I did switch drivers before, but in a twist of fate, I
thought it wasn't recognizing the card properly because I was reading
/var/log/XFree86.0.log (which wasn't being written to anymore after a
recent update!) instead of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  There's something to be
said for having timestamps in log files. :-(  In any case, I'm switched
over and have 2D acceleration now.

For those of you playing along at home, yes, it's as simple as
substituting "radeon" for "vesa" in the Device -> Driver section of your
XF86Config file.

- C