From: Alexander S. <ale...@gm...> - 2004-01-05 23:40:41
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just a follow up for the archives replying to a statement from last year. From: "Paladin" <pa...@ne...> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:16 AM > DRI does not support the Radeon 9600, so you'll have to go with the > ATI binary drivers. correct. maybe the comercial XiG drivers do support the 9600 as well, but i never checked that. > I have the following line in /etc/modules.conf: > > alias char-major-195 fglrx > > but that was handled by installation scripts. 2D display driver specifies and tries to load the fglrx kernel module. thats just the normal DRI behaviour as far as i know. > By the way, the package overwrites /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 so > you should think about backing it up. If the default RPM packaging is used then the RPM system does care for backing up and reinstalling it. for repackaged "deb"s i dont know. > Anyway, you should only need it in case DRI comes to support > Radeon 9600 and you want to use DRI. The provided library from the RPM does provide the full set of DRI functionality plus a few extra hooks which bring e.g. the fgl_glxgears (pbuffer sample application) into full featured action. > In that case if you didn't backup it's a good idea to reinstall the > mesa library package. Its uncritical to use either or. Forfully reinstalling matching the XF86 provided libGL (not the old Mesa provided libGL) will only benignly kill a few advanced OpenGL features of the driver which aren´t of much use for consumer purposes. -Alex. |