[ydl-gen] YDL on PB17

[Warren Nagourney]

Thanks, Bill. I will look into these things.

-wn

On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Bill Fink wrote:

> Hi Warren,
>
> What does xvinfo indicate?
>
> Also check what driver you're using in your xorg.conf:
>
> gwiz% grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>         Driver          "keyboard"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         Driver  "ati"
>
> If that last line has 'Driver  "fbdev"', try changing it to ati
> (or perhaps radeon), and restarting your X server.
>
> You can also check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for possible error messages
> from the X server.
>
> 						-Bill
>
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:36:26 -0800, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>
>> Ooops. I mean the radeon mobility 9700 gpu. I see that other people
>> get 2D acceleration but not 3D. I don't seem to get any.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -wn
>>
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks very much for your replies!
>>>
>>> I fixed part of the video problem using a suggestion on the YDL
>>> solutions site: I was able to get the video back by using some form
>>> of CTRL-OPTION-F2 to get a terminal and executed Xautoconfig to
>>> regenerate a useable configuration file.  The video now looks good,
>>> but it is still not accelerated. Is there any way to ensure
>>> accelerated video on a machine using an ATI mobility 7700 gpu?
>>>
>>> The reason for thinking that the video is not accelerated is that I
>>> briefly get multiple window outlines when I move one Firefox window
>>> over another one. They quickly collapse, but this shouldn't  
>>> happen if
>>> the video is accelerated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> -wn