[nflug] OSX Like Desktop Switcher

[Josh Johnson]

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From: wpos2 at adelphia.net
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] OSX Like Desktop Switcher
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:55:41 -0500

> 
> OK: I downloaded the proprietary ATI driver and ran the app that 
> was instructed for me to run, whose name illudes me at the moment.  
> 3ddesk ran BUT refresh rate was limited to 60 hz.  This told me 
> that I had to change the monitor, so I went to System 
> Settings|Display, went to the second tab, and chose it.  HOWEVER, 
> when I went back to this the monitor was set back to unknown 
> monitor, and therefore my only choice for refresh rate was still 
> limited to 60 hz.  Since I don't like my system to give me seizures,
> 
> 	and since I had wisely made a copy of xorg.conf,

I suspect that you are very close. When you use the xorg.conf that ATI produced; what is the output of "glxinfo |grep render" ?  Because if that is OK then it may just be a matter of adjusting your resolution in xorg.conf to match your original because ati guessed your monitor wrong.

> 
> I switched back to the old xorg.conf and here I am.  I just took a 
> look at file permissions for both versions of this file, suspecting 
> that that may be an issue, but their permissions are the same.  I'm 
> going to stick to my original config for now.  It seems not worth 
> it, with the refresh rate, PLUS the fact that when I VNC to this 
> machine from another one, the resulting display does funky things 
> like display only the parts of the menu that the mouse pointer 
> hovers over.  Perhaps I should've gone for an NVIDIA-based vid 
> card.  Nevertheless, thanks for all the help everyone.  I had a 
> good lesson in dealing with ATI products.
> 
> And, by the way, the OS was installed on top of the new system, so 
> the video card came before the OS.
> >
> >
> > As Jesse said, the problem is definitely that you don't have 
> > openGL working on your system.
> >
> > If you run "glxinfo |grep render" I'm sure that it will say "No" 
> > to "Direct Rendering". Does that driver come from ATI? I've never 
> > used their binary drivers but I have a 9250 128M PCI (R200 
> > chipset) right now and it works fine with just the kernel module. 
> > I'm not sure how easy FC4 makes it get at the kernel source. And 
> > chances are that the module is already built. Also you need to 
> > make sure that /etc/X11/xorg.conf knows about your card and how 
> > to use it. Mine looks like this;
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier  "videocard0"
> >     Driver      "radeon"
> > EndSection
> >
> > If the ATI driver is just called something a little different, it 
> > may just be a matter of changing the "Driver" to that. Helpful 
> > information can be found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log (Is there an 
> > error? Did the driver load? etc...).
> >
> > There is a whole agenda with getting 3d working. AGP support and 
> > mobo chipset support needs to be enabled. Most of the newer 
> > distros (like FC4) have all of this configured though. I'm kind 
> > of surprised that fc4 didn't pick up on it and get it working. 
> > Did you add the card *after* your initial installation?
> >
> > Here's some ATI driver stuff that could help.
> > https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1177
> > https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.20.8-inst.html
> >
> > Let us know how it goes.
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> >
> >> . . . > Thanks guys, this is too freakin cool! I went to 
> >> sourceforge and they
> >>
> >>> had an rpm for FC4 that was like 82k! Downloaded and installed 
> >>> in Gnome, works beautifully!
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