Re: Search for failure

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 17:30 +0100, Tobias Krais wrote: 
> In case the fglrx module is loaded, but fglrx does not work, am I
> correct when I say the other kernel config does not matter?

Not 100%, but it indeed usually doesn't at that point.


> When the message "(II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!" can be
> read in Xorg.0.log, is it right to claim that the xorg driver is OK and
> the module is found correctly?

Yes.

> If both is true, which additional 3D packages must be installed on a
> debian system?

The fglrx packages should contain (or depend on) everything necessary.

> If they are installed, are there other possible failures that prevent 3d
> acceleration from working correctly?

Yes. The output of

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose fglrxinfo

should indicate what's wrong.


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