Ubuntu8.04ATI graphics card driver is a bit hard to understand

My video card is ATIx1700, and there was no directrendering before. But compiz is okay, and it's okay to watch movies. But somehow, after re-installing Ubuntu8.04, it is also enabled with the limited drive (this time I saw, is installed with the xorg-driver-fglrx1: 7.1.0-8-32.6.24.12-16.34 package ), however, the following result is true when you run glxinfo: $ glxinfo | greprender

My video card is ATI x1700 and there was no direct rendering before. But compiz is okay, and it's okay to watch movies.

But somehow, after re-installing Ubuntu8.04, the restricted driver is also enabled (this time I saw that xorg-driver-fglrx is installed. 1.0-8-3 2.6.24.12-16.34), but the following results are indeed executed:

$ Glxinfo | grep render

Direct rendering: Yes

OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

Therefore, some games that were previously unavailable can also be used, and google earth can also be used, but the effect is not good. The glasses are sore.

In addition, the default configuration of mplayer does not allow you to watch a movie. Fortunately, after selecting-vo x11, it will be normal again.