Radeon 9250 in Ubuntu

[Vincent Trouilliez]

smithveg <smithveg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally, you come back again. Malaysia time is 1.15AM now.

Your turn ! ;-)

> No, how i know i have 3D acceration.

I have already explained you this...

> this is the setting in xorg.conf,
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
>     Driver        "Radeon"
>     BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection


That is correct.


> --------------------------------------------------------
> No matter i use ati or Radeon, grep rendering also tell me 'Yes', Why?

In Dapper I have to explicitly load the Radeon driver, but I just
tried in Edgy, and indeed the 'ati' drivers works too. Don't worry... I
think it's just that the 'ati' driver is a wrapper for all sorts of
cards. It used to be that the radeon driver had to be called
explicitly, but not anymore in Edgy as it happens. No big deal, just
makes things easier ! :o)

> This is what i see, I can not see any Radeon words.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> veg at veg-desktop:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
> direct rendering: Yes

That's normal ! ;-)

glxinfo, as its name suggest, gives info about the GLX stuff,
not about hardware details ! ;-) 
So that's normal, don't worry...

> I really have a 3D acceleration install? 

YES !!!! :o)

> I can't believe it, 

You can believe it !  ;-)

> because my machine can not prove it to me, :)

You mean, 3D stuff is slow ? Yes, as I told you in a previous message,
the free driver is slow as hell, but it's still useable. I just tried
Googleearth a minute ago to check that the ati/radeon driver was
working... and it does work.

Again, if you want fast 3D acceleration for 3D heavy games, you better
change your video card altogether for something newer, with
better/more efficient drivers. Ask people about what to chose, I am
sure you will be flooded with advises and experiences ;-)

--
Vince