[SOLVED] Went from FC13 to FC14 now gaming graphics shotty...

Vegan · 01-09-2011, 03:43 PM

I had been running Fedora core 13. Everything was running fine. Gaming graphics were excellent. 3d acceleration was as well.
Did a fresh install of fedora core 14 and now gaming graphics just plain suck. Colours are distorted, textures are shotty, lots of black spots in the distance.
I've install mesa experimental drivers with no improvement.
also messed with the settings in either game with little to no improvement

Specific games this is happening on are urban terror and nexuiz.
Graphics card is Radeon HD 4650

Anyone else having this issue?
Any suggestions on what i can try?

Code:

# glxinfo | grep render 
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV730 9498) 20090101  TCL DRI2

RockDoctor · 01-10-2011, 07:26 AM

Quote:

I've install mesa experimental drivers with no improvement.

Not surprising,

Code:

/# rpm -ql  mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
/usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/nouveau_vieux_dri.so
/usr/share/doc/mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.10
/usr/share/doc/mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.10/COPYING

First thing, ensure that you've got the latest mesa and X updates for F14. If that doesn't help, you might try manually reverting to the F13 version of mesa (and X, if necessary - I know this is frowned upon, but I've had to do things like this in the past to get working video with my nvidia GeForce 9100 onboard graphics).

Vegan · 01-10-2011, 03:03 PM

Definitely something to look into.

I'm going to look into rawhide tonight and see if there is one loaded for fc15 yet and try that one

Vegan · 01-10-2011, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vegan

Definitely something to look into.

I'm going to look into rawhide tonight and see if there is one loaded for fc15 yet and try that one

No such luck

Will just deal with it for now.

Vegan · 01-14-2011, 07:00 PM

Fixed my issue by installing kmod-catalyst following the instructions here http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon
graphics are now up to par