openGL probglem

[Michael Havens]

all fixed.... I did what you would not prefer. I ran 'sudo apt-get install
fglrx' it installed a package and now it seems all is running normally.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2014-01-06 14:11, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:~$ lspci | grep VGA
>>
>
> Did they move it to /usr/bin/ ?  Ah well, at least it worked.
>
>  00:01.0 VGA ATI Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250]
>>
>> as for xorg.conf.... there is none.
>>
>
> Wonderful.  IIRC, if no /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists, then X attempts to
> auto-generate a config file at runtime.  This usually works to get a
> Display up, but it can fail when you'd like to do more complicated things.
>
> An ATi Radeon 6250 can totally use accelerated OpenGL stuff with the right
> kernel module and xorg.conf options.  I have a similar Radeon in my home
> desktop; I can reproduce the configs and so forth for you later.
>
>  there is an xorg.conf.fglrx-0
>>
>
> This is if you want to use the fglrx evil binary-only X module.  This is
> an option, but it isn't an option that I would personally take since every
> time I've tried to use fglrx it's been a complete disaster.
>
>
>  Should I rename xorg.conf.fglrx-0 to xorg.conf?
>>
>
> Probably not.
>
>
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