[lug] AMD Catalyst Display Driver

[Steven Hart]

  Please disregard.  I figured it out.

sorry to bother everyone, it's been one of those days!

cheers

Steve

On 06/23/2011 02:46 PM, Steven Hart wrote:
> I just picked up a bunch of HP desktops and they all have FireGL V3350 
> video cards in them.   I'm going to be setting up RHEL5 64 bit on all 
> of these systems and I'm having an issue getting the accelerated 
> graphics to run correctly.
>
> As expected, the driver provided by HP is outdated and bombs 
> miserably.  I have the latest driver provided by AMD/ATI and it 
> appears to install normally.  The issue I'm having is that when I run 
> glxinfo, I get:
>
> direct rendering: No
>
> and it does not mention anything about the ATI drivers.  It's almost 
> as if they are not installing correctly.
>
> I'm curious if anyone has played with this type of setup and if so, 
> what does your xorg.conf file look like.  The installer for the ATI 
> adds a few sections but it does not change the Videocard0 device 
> section as I would expect.
>
> Any ideas on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
> -- 
> Steve Hart
> Systems Administrator
> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
> University of Colorado Boulder
> Steven.Hart at colorado.edu
> (303)492-8109
>
>
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Steve Hart
Systems Administrator
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
University of Colorado Boulder
Steven.Hart at colorado.edu
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