Urgent: ATI Rage 6 driver

[Guest MrBaseball34]

I am in the middle of installing Mandriva 2006 Free and I do not see the ATI Rage 6 in the video list.

Which one should I select?

[lavaeolus]

seems to be a notebook ?

 

are you sure that it is a rage and not a radeon ?

 

if it is a rage just use the rage driver if it is a radeon use either the radeon or radeon (fglrx) from the list

 

you can try the drivers if you are not sure, since mandi lets you test them during installation, if you get the test-image (the colourfull one) everything's ok, maybe you might have no hardware-3D, but that's mostly only of concern if you want to play games or absolutely need a 3D-Screensaver

Edited July 22, 2006 by lavaeolus

[Guest MrBaseball34]

Nope, a desktop. I used the default Rage driver that the install selected and, so far, everything looks ok.

I have not tried to change any of the settings, yet, however.

[lavaeolus]

was just wondering, since rage 6 was the initial name for the radeon-chips

 

if the rage driver works, everything should be ok, so no need to change anything

 

btw:

 

if you want to know if direct rendering (aka hardware-3d-acceleration) is working then type in a console as root:

 

glxinfo | grep renderer

 

if the output is something like:

 

 

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Rage128 Pro AGP 2x x86

 

 

Hardware-3D-Acceleration is working

 

otherwise you get something like:

 

 

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX indirect