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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #408065
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 408065

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Vish (vish) wrote :

my Mesa was
~$ glxinfo |grep nGL
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.5
OpenGL extensions:

Upstream recommended me to use the xorg-edgers ppa (https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa) which has the
latest 3D drivers for Ubuntu.

Now my mesa is
~$ glxinfo |grep nGL
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 (RV515 7145) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.6-devel
OpenGL extensions:

Since they said mesa 7.6 was the latest.

But there are other problems with KMS , as in the drastic sluggishness. which is an xorg problem
But that aside, during KMS setting, when i use cairo-dock with openGL in debug mode it get the error:
drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22

and it wont start. while the non-openGL version works with KMS.

Without using KMS , i dont think it will display properly , hence it still shows the black background for me too.