[Linux-Anyway] Re: Slow X
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux Anyway <Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:02:22 -0700 (PDT)
> > Oh, my video card's an ATI Radeon 9500 with 64MB RAM.
> In that case how do you explain this:
> > Identifier "Card0"
> > Driver "nv"
> > VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
> > BoardName "NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro]"
> Does the Radeon 9500 really use an NVidia chip rather than an
> ATI Radeon chip? I suspect you're loading the wrong driver, X
> is seeing the incompatibility and falling back on a standard
> VESA-compatible server. A peek into your /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> could be revealing.
No. And I thought that ~really~ odd, when I'm pretty sure I'd
had to add the ati driver -- though I may be confusing the gentoo
install requiring it. But I'd gone with the full install of
slack, so the driver should be there.
> Surely you should have:
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "radeon"
> VendorName "ATI"
> BoardName "Radeon 9500"
Got it.
> BTW, I just saw that you'd already done the LoadModule thingy
> on glx, dri and freetype, but you didn't add the Section "DRI"
> bit. This is what makes HW acceleration available to all users
> rather than just root.
Oh, I'd added that, & I intend to restart X shortly. Just
finishing up some stuff before hand.
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