From: Carl W. S. <ch...@re...> - 2002-10-31 18:30:29
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> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 8500 > Does this mean that the X/DRI that comes with Slackware 8.1 does not support DRI with Radeon 8500? yes. radeon 8500 drivers are still bleeding-edge, and not integrated into the main X tree yet. > So I just gave up and started > to use MS-Windows 2000. Now I'm trying DRI and Slackware again. For me to > use Linux and DRI, the installation of DRI has to be as EASY as installing > DirectX 8.1 on MS-Windows 2000. keep in mind that Slackware is definitely not the most newbie-friendly distro out there. you might be a lot happier with Redhat or Mandrake. Debian has a lot of adherents as well (me included); but you need to be comfortable configuring your system without a lot of the fancy tools (or at least know what they are so you can install them). that said, I've used slackware, and I like it. it's just a lot more hassle to keep up to date than some other distros. > The install.sh script fails and gives an > error message which I do not understand. As an end user I > understand/respond to error messages that say something like "Sorry, you > don't have the latest version of DirectX installed, you must install > DirectX 8.1 to run your silly game." Slackware is my favorite Linux > distirbution, but if I can't get DRI installed, I will switch to RedHat. I > think RedHat sets up DRI during installation..., RH sets up DRI during installation, for supported video cards (including some nVidia cards, I'm given to understand). the radeon 8500 is not yet a supported video card for redhat (or any other distro for that matter). I see you're running kernel 2.4.18... try 2.4.19, and see if the DRI install script works for you then. (or are the DRI snapshots built against a 2.4.20 kernel now?) Carl Soderstrom. -- Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com |