I'm posting this for the archives.  Hopefully, it will save someone else
a headache.  I'll leave the original post at the bottom for reference.

To get the working, I did the following:
http://firstpacket.com/comments.php?id=215_0_1_0_C4


...Kevin






On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:53, Kevin wrote:
> Need some advanced XFree86 + DRI help.  I have a Thinkpad T40 with a
> Radeon Mobility chipset that refuses to do 3D acceleration.  It runs
> Gentoo 1.4.  I put in a different hard drive and loaded RH9, but still
> had no 3D acceleration.
> 
>   gentoo-box# glxinfo | grep rendering
>   direct rendering: No
> 
>   redhat9-box# glxinfo | grep rendering
>   direct rendering: No
> 
> Funny thing is that Knoppix 3.3 boots up with 3D acceleration working
> perfectly on this laptop.  
> 
>   knoppix-box# glxinfo | grep rendering
>   direct rendering: Yes
> 
> Of course, this is the OPEN SOURCE approach to supporting this
hardware
> via the dri.sourceforge.net project.  The proprietary ATI drivers for
> Linux _do_not_support_ this particular chipset.  So, as tempting as it
> sounds, `emerge ati-drivers` _does_not_ fix the problem here.
> 
> 
> Specs (I'll be glad to send any other configs or output):
> 
> IBM Thinkpad T40, Pentium M 1500Mhz, 512MB RAM
> ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (w/128MB RAM)
> Gentoo 1.4, Kernel 2.4.20, 2.4.22, 2.4.25
> xfree 4.3.0-r5 && xfree-drm 4.3.0-r7
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if we have any XFree86 and/or DRI wizards on the list. 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ...Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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