[MINC-users] Display graphics on fedora 7

[Andrew Janke]

On 6/22/07, Soren Christensen <sorench at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have trouble with hardware rendering (I assume) in Display compiled on
> Fedora 7.
> The slice/cursor navigation seems slow as if software rendering is in
> effect, but glxinfo | grep direct:   direct rendering: Yes, and Display also
> does not give warnings except this one every time it is started:
> Try R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING env var if this hangs.

Hi again Soren,

Seems I can get this error too.. I have an ATI in my T42 thinkpad
(Radeon 9600 series). In my case I can get this identical error if I
use a combination of the radeon drivers and beryl.

It doesnt happen with fglrx or ati athough I couldn't get beryl
working under fglrx + Xgl so gave up.

What this means is that I would bet that you are out of video memory
or the likes, a good way to check this is to go back to using the ati
driver in xorg.conf instead of fglrx/radeon.

So the question is does Fedora use fglrx or radeon?

And like you say, the simple solution is to stick to a nvidia card! :)


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