[ydl-gen] Re: yellowdog-general Digest, Vol 22, Issue 5

[Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong]

>>
>> I downloaded GNOME, so now I have more than either a nice text
>> interface or a bunch of xterms. I also downloaded tuxracer, but I was
>> only getting around 2-3 FPS with settings at the absolute minimum
>> (including windowed 320x240). On my Nvidia 6800 desktop, which I
>> recently put Ubuntu x86 SMP on, I remembered that this was because of
>> not having any hardware accel drivers. so, I lspci'd and found out I
>> had an ATI rage mobility L, which is apparently in the Mach64 family
>> (which makes since, because my lots-of-debugging output says Mach64
>> PLL register values: ...). I looked for 3D drivers, and it looks like
>> the ATI accel drivers are only for x86 :-(. So, it seems that either
>> MesaGL or DRI, or even Utah GL are the only workable options.
>> Along these lines, I attempted to get DRI/MesaGL compiled again,  
>> which
>> succeeded. I tried to install them and get 3d accel, which failed.  
>> The
>> only thing that I can think of is that my drivers require X.org, not
>> XFree86. Is there any way for us YDL 4.0 users to get X.org? Either
>> that, or has anybody successfully gotten X 3D acceleration working
>> with the ATI Rage Mobility L (NOT 128!)?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>
> As far as I could discover, the Nvidia 6800 is a card, not a desktop
> computer.

I should have phrased that better: On my Dell XPS 400 desktop with an  
Nvidia 6800 graphics card running Ubuntu 6.06.

> Regarding YDL 4.0 and x.org, if your yum.conf is pointed at
> the correct locations of YDL 4.0 yum repositories, you should have no
> difficulties acquiring what is available for YDL 4.0.
>
> It might be a good idea to find out first what you have, you could do
> this with:
>
> # yum info x*
>
> This will list anything beginning with x.
>
> # yum search x*
>
> This will find whatever begins with an x.
>
> After yum returns a listing of what it found you can then decide to
> install it.
>
> # yum install xfiles
> or whatever you found in the list to be useful.
>

OK, I did this and all the X stuff pointed to XFree86 4.x, not X.org.

> The other option you have is to go to x.org itself and find what is
> available there  - download the source, compile it, build the
> executables and install them.  However getting what is current from
> them may not help you if their package requires the more current
> packages available in the Linux kernel or other dependencies which
> replace those you may be familiar with.  And as some dependencies are
> shared across different applications this may become an unwieldy
> problem pretty quickly.  Depending on the computer you use for YDL you
> have a variety of choices.
>

I guess this is my best bet.


Thanks for the help!