Re: Cannot choose Beryl as the windows manager

Dotan Cohen writes:

On 06/05/07, Markku Kolkka <markkuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan Cohen kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 6.
toukokuuta 2007):

> A) In order to run Beryl and other 3D programs I must enable
> 3D on my Radeon X1400 graphics card. That means that I must
> choose a driver which can enable it. The possible drivers are:
> 1) Vesa. This is the standard Fedora driver, and has no 3D.
> 2) Mesa. Not sure if it has 3D or where it comes from.

Mesa isn't a driver, it's an OpenGL-compatible 3D-graphics
library.

> 3) Radeon. Also called FGLRX.

No, those are two different drivers. "radeon" is an open-source
driver that's included with Fedora, fglrx is a proprietary
driver available from ATI or third-party repositories.

> B) There are different graphics environments, call X servers:
> Xorg, XGL and X11.

X11 is the specification of the graphics environment, X.org and
XGL are implementations of the X11 specification.


Thanks. So, I need to replace:
1) Vesa/Radeon in xorg.cong to fglrx. This is simply done with VI.

Maybe, maybe not. I doubt that it's as easy as flipping a switch. First, you need to install ATI's non-free kernel driver. It's not a part of Fedora because it is not free software. And it won't magically appear out of nowhere. You have to install it, and it likely needs to be compiled for the kernel version you're running. Anytime you update the kernel in the future, you will need to recompile it again.

I do not know if there's a prepackaged ati driver that you can install from some third-party yum repository. I can't find it in Livna, the usual place for these kinds of things. I have not looked at ATI's non-free driver, but it's fairly likely that its installation instructions is non-trivial. Welcome to the world of non-free, proprietary software.

2) Xorg with XGL. This is done by installing XGL via yum.

No, it's done by installing Xorg, which includes XGL.


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