ATI Radeon 9600 SE & OpenGL?

[Barry Pederson]

Stijn Hoop wrote:

>>So does the 3D acceleration actually work in your setup?
> 
> It does in mine:
> 
> agp0: <Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
> 
> later after starting X:
> 
> drm0: <ATI Radeon RV280 9200 SE> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xdf000000-0xdf00ffff,0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
> 
> And glxgears gets me an acceptable framerate. Unfortunately I'm not at the
> console or I'd show you the numbers.
> 
> I just put this card in the machine last week and I had to upgrade to
> XFree86-4-Server-snap port but other than that I didn't do anything fancy
> iirc.
> 
> XF86Config attached fwiw.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> --Stijn


Thanks, having a known-working configuration to sure helps, but after 
taking your config and just reducing the "Modes" list in the "Screen" 
section to something my monitor can handle - I still get the same 
result, a hard hang with a black screen.



Jamie Bowden wrote:

 >>I end up just pulling the power cord and then letting it
 >>reboot and go through a fsck.
 >
 >
 > Instead, hold the power button down for ~15 seconds.  Much less
 > trauma on the hardware than pulling the plug.

Thanks, that's good to know - ended up giving that a try too :)

	Barry