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March 14, 2004

Mandrake Part 3

Okay, so I got the whole 3D issue figured out.

Apparently, when the ATI driver/module tries to install, it sees if it has a compatable module for the kernel running on the machine. If there isn't a compatable kernel, the program looks in the /usr/src/kernel/ directory and makes itself a custom module.

Well, in my Fedora installation with 2.6.x kernels, I neglected to create a symbolic link to any of my installed kernel sources, so the ATI driver couldn't find the kernel source. The same thing was happening in the Mandrake install as well, but my problem with it was that I didn't have a kernel source installed on the machine.

Oops.

Anyhow, everything is working much better now. I'm going to download UT2k4 and see if there is any noticable speed improvements. I was messing around with glxgears earlier and the frame rates were quite impressive. Can't wait to see how well UT2k4 permorms.

Posted by ed at 07:35 PM | Comments (0)