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RAM Digital Media
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Okay, here's the situation... On my notebook, I have an ATI driver installed, and am running SuSE 10.0. However, there's one problem... There's no 3D Acceleration installed with this driver from ATI. I have copied and pasted the Xorg.conf file as shown here:


# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2006-06-21T17:55:31-0400.
#
# Version: 7.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@...;, 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (7.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Layout[all]"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
	Option	    "Clone" "off"
	Option	    "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS0"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS1"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS2"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS3"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS4"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS5"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS6"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS7"
	InputDevices   "/dev/ttyS8"
	InputDevices   "/dev/psaux"
	InputDevices   "/dev/logibm"
	InputDevices   "/dev/sunmouse"
	InputDevices   "/dev/atibm"
	InputDevices   "/dev/amigamouse"
	InputDevices   "/dev/atarimouse"
	InputDevices   "/dev/inportbm"
	InputDevices   "/dev/gpmdata"
	InputDevices   "/dev/mouse"
	InputDevices   "/dev/usbmouse"
	InputDevices   "/dev/adbmouse"
	InputDevices   "/dev/input/mice"
	InputDevices   "/dev/input/event0"
	InputDevices   "/dev/pointer0"
	InputDevices   "/dev/pointer1"
	InputDevices   "/dev/pointer2"
	InputDevices   "/dev/pointer3"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
	FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "v4l"
	Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard[0]"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "Protocol" "Standard"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc104"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse[1]"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Name" "Logitech Optical USB Mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
	Option	    "Vendor" "Sysp"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse[3]"
	Driver      "synaptics"
	Option	    "AccelFactor" "0.1"
	Option	    "BottomEdge" "650"
	Option	    "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
	Option	    "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
	Option	    "CircularScrolling" "1"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "15"
	Option	    "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "15"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
	Option	    "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
	Option	    "FingerHigh" "15"
	Option	    "FingerLow" "14"
	Option	    "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
	Option	    "InputFashion" "Mouse"
	Option	    "LeftEdge" "120"
	Option	    "MaxSpeed" "1"
	Option	    "MaxTapMove" "110"
	Option	    "MaxTapTime" "180"
	Option	    "MinSpeed" "0.2"
	Option	    "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	    "RightEdge" "830"
	Option	    "SHMConfig" "on"
	Option	    "TopEdge" "120"
	Option	    "UpDownScrolling" "1"
	Option	    "Vendor" "Sysp"
	Option	    "VertScrollDelta" "20"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
	Identifier     "Modes[0]"
	ModeLine     "800x600" 40.2 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 623
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
	VendorName   "LPL"
	ModelName    "M5243154W01 MONITOR"
	UseModes     "Modes[0]"
	DisplaySize  330	210
	HorizSync    30.0 - 40.0
	VertRefresh  43.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Device[0]"
	Driver      "radeon"
	VendorName  "ATI"
	BoardName   "Radeon Mobility M300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE)"
	BusID       "1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen[0]"
	Device     "Device[0]"
	Monitor    "Monitor[0]"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes    "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     32
		Modes    "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes    "800x600"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        "video"
	Mode         0660
EndSection


Now, where do I find out where to find 3D Acceleration for the graphics driver, so I can start playing myself some BlitzMax games or any 3D game in general? ATI, I mean to say it, doesn't seem to like supporting any Linux distro, which is unfortunate, IMHO.