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Ever since buying my ATI X700Pro PCI-E graphics card I have not been able to get 3D acceleration to work. I was curious if anyone else with an ATI PCI-E graphics card had got theres to work. When I read through the information on the ATI support site it mainly mentions AGP but rarely mentions anything about PCI-E. Thanks all.

Ian, I was hoping that you wasn't going to say that :( My problem with the ATI installer is that I have no idea what it installed. How can I find out? I did a rpm -qa|grep -i ati, but that didn't bring anything back. It's possible that the ATI installer didn't install using rpm and if so, I'd really have no idea what has been installed. I'm thinking about doing a new install (AGAIN) since this is driving me crazy that I can't get 3D acceleration to work. I just hate having to set up my system again since the rest of it is running pretty good. Any more suggestions from anyone else?

Ian, Well, I did a reboot and the box still crashed. Attaching a couple of files in the hope that either yourself or anyone more knowledgeable than me on this can perhaps provide more help. File 1 is the xorg.conf file that was created after selecting the ATI fglrx driver. File 2 iis the Xorg log file that was created when booting with the ATI driver. Really hoping that someone can help on this since I'd love to get 3D acceleration working. xorg.conf.txt Xorg.0.log.txt

Ok, I added the "DRI section to the end of the xorg.conf file and I set the driver to ATI Radeon (fglrx). For now I am not going to re-start the x-server because of 2 reasons: 1). I am logged in via VNC 2). I am not at the machine and the last time I chose this option (albeit without adding the Section "DRI" the machine just crashed :( ) So, when I get home tonight I'll restart X (what's the best way to do this besides re-booting the machine??). I'm assuming that the ATI installer has installed some package(s). Anyone know what they are and if I need to remove them or not? Thanks all.

Ian, Reinstalling Mesa did the trick to fix the libGL. So appears that (at least for LE2005) the ATI installer foobars that up :(

Ok, Got this one resolved. Thanks to all.

Ian, Cheers mate. I do have Mesa installed but perhaps running the ATI installer has caused a problem. I'll do an uninstall of all the mesa stuff and then reinstall to see what happens.

I had an idea. I did a sym link for libGL.so.1.4.502 to point to libGL.so.1.2 and then I ran glxinfo. Here is what I got (and it doesn't look good) name of display: :1.0 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.502 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0". 0x22 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None Mind you, I am loged in via VNC so I'm not sure if that would cause a problem too.

and more importantly, how do I fix it ?? I have been having too much trouble trying to get my ATI X700Pro video card to do 3D graphics. I came across this site and was reading through some of the post in regards to ATI graphics cards. So, I was wanting to do some of the checks on the posts states. When I type glxinfo|grep direct I get the following error message: Couldn't open required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.4.502! The closest file I have is: libGL.so.1..2 I'm thinking that this is installed by the ATI installer, but I am not sure. It has todays date on it and I ran the installer today. So,it could be that the ATI installer doesn't check dependencies. I'm running LE2005.

Hi there, I recently installed Mandriva LE 2005 and set the security level to Higher, and that's the way that I would like to keep it. Anyway, I noticed that I cannot ping localhost. All packets are dropped :( Now, I don't want my machine to be pingable from outside my LAN but I do want it to be pingable from within the LAN and certainly from the box itself. So, how can I remedy this? I'm not a Linux guru so I have no idea how to go about this. My router has a firewall and I only let certain ports through, such as 80, etc. I do _not_ have iptables nor shorewall running so I'm confused as to why I can't ping myself. TIA. Dave.