open source ATI driver with Radeon HD 5470

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Stefano Facchini
<stefano.facchini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have followed the instructions in
> http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo to build the latest ATI driver
> and Mesa. I succeeded in build and install everything. However, with
>
>   glxinfo | grep OpenGL
>
> I still get
>
>   OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>
> so 3d hardware acceleration is disabled. Is this a problem of my video
> card Radeon HD 5470? I thought that some 3d support was already
> enabled with the open source driver (see
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evergreen_3d&num=1).
> Has someone any suggestion?

Make sure you have kernel 2.6.36 or newer, mesa 7.9 or newer, and
xf86-video-ati from git master.

Alex

>
> bye
> Stefano
>
>
> Debian squeeze, kernel version 2.6.36
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