Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #258025
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 258025

Revision history for this message
AndyAirey (aairey) wrote : Re: no ati Radeon 3D acceleration on laptop

I fixed it whilst following:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

and then

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=310018

As this is not the way it's supposed to go, I filed a bug report (this one).
Especially adding the option irqpoll in /boot/grub/menu.lst is weird ...
> That's what actually enables the direct rendering.

zuzuzzzip@geordie:~$ glxinfo | grep vendor
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: SGI
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
zuzuzzzip@geordie:~$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

Hope to help someone with this!