I find this very hard to understand - has anyone else gotten the following error:

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 145 (XFree86-DRI)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 ()
Value in failed request: 0x2800002
Serial number of failed request: 46
Current serial number in output stream: 46

I have DRI installed, fglrx, and OpenGL, and yet... my ATI Radeon 9600 XT doesn't work. Can someone possibly fill me in on why? I have searched MANY places, and so far, I haven't found another person who gets this error. Again, if someone could clue me in on what that error means, it would be greatly appreciated.

You must be using a newer version of DRI, try installing the one from 20040208.

not just newer

at first i tried the newest DRI available - it gave me the same error.
But then someone said i should use 20040208 and it worked!!

Now - does anyone have any suggestions on how to make 3d work faster?
I have the same prob as someone posted earlier - UT2K4 is very sloooow, when normally it would be very fast on my windows for instance.
Is it all drivers? or is there something else to it holding it back?


Alex

as soon as i get my 80 gig drive back from maxtor i am going to attempt to get my 9800 Pro working under slackware... i'll let you know how it goes =)

a little correction to my prev post and some additional info on ATI installation

for DRI, ine has to install the NEWEST snapshot first (currently 20040408) and then install the older (20040208) right after.

The reason for that is that 20040208 does not support 2.6.x kernels, but it contains bug and wont work.
So installing 20040208 right after sor of "patches" the buggy modules

Another hint for for those with Radeons that cannot get 3d to work:
- Load up
- exit X: Ctrl+Alt+F1
- login as root
- type init 3
- enter , to get #
- lsmod
- check if fglrx, agpgart are loaded. Also if you have Nforce mobo, check if nvidia_agp is loaded.
- if one of these are not loaded 3d in X will NOT WORK
- for NForce download the driver from nvidia site and install it
- so, if one or more of these are not loaded as shown by lsmod
load it using modprobe <module name> (eg fglrx, agpgart or nvidia_agp (or via_agp if thats what u have))
- then make sure you have all of them loaded with lsmod
if yes, start X : "startx"
- if thats not working then you either did not specify kernel configuration correctly before building it or did not install drivers or DRI package(s)

- if it does work after all this - you need to make sure those (3) modules start up automatically on system startup before X loads

Hope that helps

Cheers
Alex

hey alex,

thanks for the info... when I compile the nForce drivers, I get some errors, something like nvout.o not found. It's looking in the 2.6 kernel source directory. Are you sure its compatible with the 2.6.x kernels?

i am sure that 20040408 release of DRI supports 2.6 and 2.4 kernel as it says itself when you run it.

One strange thing happened today which has me not quite believe that installation of the DRI is needed at all.

Some guy on amdmb forum said that DRI is not needed. So i wanted to double check .

So i recompiled the kernel, reinstalled ATI drivers and NForce driver. And still everything works as long as those 3 modules i mentioned are loaded.

I am under impression that if one recompiles the kernel - one must recompile all the loadable modules that are installed (device drivers and such)
My reason for thinking that way is that when i recompile kernel - no modules that were compiled before cannot be loaded. So i assume now that DRI is not needed.

Who knows. I am not going to reinstall the whole distro - so i'll let you guys check that one out and let us know

Download and install the version 20040208 of the DRI snapshot
your arror message is caused by the newer buggy DRI .


Alex

Make sure you don't enable vsync when running fglrxconfig or you will get slow speeds.
Everything was working fine for me except that I had this enabled.

Now I get 4000fps in glxgears and 700fps in fgl_glxgears with my 9700 Pro.

Whew!

well the thing with that is that you cannot see those crazy FPS anyway

you cannot see FPS higher than your current monitor refresh rate.
Think about it ...

Alex

That is almost identical to what I'm getting Opticus. Have you managed to improve on that and if so what did you have to do?

Thanks

I had the same issue on my 9500 Pro and it was driver's fault. When i returned back to 3.7.0 drivers, i returned to have arroud 2100fps on glxgears...

BTW, why the hell you need nvida_agp module on an ATi video card?? I don't have that module loaded and got 3D....

interesting - i am getting 4000FPS on glxgears (not full screen)
and 700FPS on fgl_glxgears (not full screen), 400FPS on full screen 1152x800 resolution

I have radeon 9700pro and athlon @ 2Ghz on Nforce 2

You need the nvidia_agp module if you have an nForce motherboard.

So, do you think 2100fps on glxgears, not full screen at 1200x1024 is a low value for a radeaon 9500 pro?

well, i didn't think that 9700Pro is twice as fast as 9500Pro
but CPU matters too

i dont know