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Hexorg

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Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 27

ATI videodriver

Good daytime to you! I'm trying to install arch on my old HP Presario X100 laptop.

Xorg works perfectly through the vesa, but with 3D acceleration... problems start...

hwd -a tells me that I have:

Video: Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]

I've installed xf86-video-ati driver, but hwd -x won't generate xorg.conf.avi file (it generates xorg.conf.fglrx and xorg.conf.vesa)
Just like I said, vesa works fine, but fglrx wont start, saying

module fglrx not found

if I try to install catalyst... Trying to startx through xorg.conf.fglrx says

no devices found

, and aticonfig responds with

no supported cards found

Is there any way to use 3D hardware acceleration? Or am I stuck with vesa?

Hexorg

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Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 27

Re: ATI videodriver

ok, I've done something, aand it works with ati now.
All I did was edited working xorg.conf.vesa and "Device" changed

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa" #changed to "ati"
    VendorName  "All"
    BoardName   "All"
EndSection

And It all worked! I have good resolutions now and it all works great not I'm still not too sure If I've done right?
Thank you.
Hexorg.

rasat

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From: Finland

Registered: 2002-12-27

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Re: ATI videodriver

If it worked with "ati", I will update the hwd's xorgtable. Please, run "lspci -nn | grep VGA" and post it here.

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