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From: Jérôme Hénin (jerome.henin_at_uhp-nancy.fr)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 04:38:39 CST

Hi Lucas,

I'm having exactly the same problem with a FireGL 8800 board and ATI's latest
drivers, on a 2.4.21 kernel. Until now, I have no solution. To use VMD I
don't need to use another driver, but I have to switch off 3d acceleration
(by adding Option "no_accel" "yes" in the board's "Device" section in
XF86Config-4).

The next thing I'm going to do is buy an NVIDIA card, and stick this one in a
Windows machine. I'm afraid this won't work for your laptop...

Regards,
Jerome

Le Jeudi 30 Octobre 2003 13:53, Lucas Watkins a écrit :
> I am using a Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 video card in an IBM Thinkpad T40,
> running Gentoo Linux on a 2.6.0-test9 kernel. When I use the stock
> (unaccelerated) drivers in the kernel, I have no problems except for the
> lack of #D acceleration. When I switch to ATI's FireGL drivers, vmd will
> start but crashes upon attempting to load any structure file. Has anyone
> else had a problem with this? How can I work around this, other than
> switching to the slower drivers?
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas Watkins