Loki Video Driver

Hi,

I have an small problem.
I use ElementaryOS on an older pc with an Radeon RV370 GPU.
But the xorg server use an VMware GPU driver?!

glxinfo | grep -i vendor
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.


So every is slow and bad to use

Have anyone an idea how I cam use the radeon driver for xorg/OpenGL?

Regards

 

Hey SQ4R3,
I'm not quite sure, but could you try editing:

Code (Text):

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Search for Identifier "Configured Video Device and change the value behind Driver to "radeon".
After restarting, the radeon driver should be active.

 

Hi,

thanks a lot for your answer.
I hwve read about the xorg.conf in some boards at people wo have the same Problem on ubuntu.

But I don't have the xorg.conf :/

When I create one, do xorg/elementary read it?

 

You can create the xorg.conf automatically.

1. CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to tty0
2. Log-In
3. switch to root shell (su, sudo -i, ...)
   
4. service lightdm stop
5. X -configure
6. cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
7. service lightdm start
8. Switch back to tty0 again and logout
9. Switch back to Desktop using CTRL-ALT-F7

Hope this helps.