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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.
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How has fglrx been disastrous? Maybe you should give me the configs and
stuff.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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@crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-01-06 14:11, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>>> bmike1@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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