I have the following system

Athlon xp 2500+ (@ 3200+ speeds)
512mb kingston hyperx pc3500
radeon 9800 pro
abit nf7 mobo

I got Mandrake 9.2 all working (my first time using linux), and i was wondering if there is any way to get 3d accelleration to work.

All of the 3d games on linux i get like 8 FPS on.

What can i do to make this better?

You need to enable Direct Rendering in order to get the FPS that are required for graphic intensive games.
Most likely it will require that you recompile the kernel, but it is very easy to do and should not pose a problem as long as you back up your current kernel image before doing anything permanent.

The following site will get you all set up:

http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/m.../Documentation

I got 3D enabled on my system without a recompile of the kernel- Im running SuSE 9, but hopefully you can do the same on any 9.x distro. Go to www.ati.com and download the Linux drivers for whatever version of X you are running (likely 4.x). Super user at the prompt and update the ati drivers with rpm -Uhv fglrxfilename.version.etc. Run the configuration app that the RPM installed (I think it's fglrxsetup or fglrxconfigure) to create a XF86Config-4 file. Personally, I just backed up the XF86Config file with
rn XF86Config XF86Config.old
And then renamed XF86Config-4 to XF86Config
Open XF86Config with your editor of choice and make sure the following lines are in it:

Under "Section Module"

Load "dri"

Ender Section Device add:

Driver "fglrx"

From here get to a prompt, super user and run:
init 3
init 5

And if init5 doesn't automagically start x, exit out from su and run startx.

Once inside X- open up a command prompt and run
glxinfo | less

If you see the line:
Direct Rendering: Yes
Then your OpenGL is up and running fine.

AMD Athlon XP 2200+
1.5gb PC3100 DDR Memory
2x IBM ATA-100 7200rpm HDD RAID Mode-0 (Windows XP)
1x Wester Digital ATA-100 7200rpm HDD (SuSE Linux 9.0)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb DDR

Yeah I edited my xf86 config file to load "dri" under section module. I'm getting 20-30 or so FPS in racer much more than before but not as much as it should be getting. glxgears gets 1229.600FPS . "glxinfo | less" says direct rendering yes. any help,advice,or instruction would be a major help.


Ok I got glxgears running at 2081.000 FPS now, but "glxinfo" still says AGP 1x at the line "OpenGL renderer string" it should be at least 4x. Is the intel 875p chipset not supported in the 2.4.21 kernel so the system just plays it in a sort of safe mode? BTW will DOOM 3 be ported to the linux platform?

Here is The output of glxinfo. AGP AT 1X What gives??

linux:~> glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_NV_vertex_array_range, GLX_MESA_agp_offset
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20020827 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset,
GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture,
GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 16 tc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 16 tc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x25 16 tc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow
0x26 16 tc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow
0x27 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow
0x2a 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow
0x2b 16 dc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2c 16 dc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2d 16 dc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow
0x2e 16 dc 0 16 0 r . . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow
0x2f 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x30 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x31 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow
0x32 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 Slow


My setup,
suse 9.0 pro 2.4.21-166smp4g
gigabyte GA-8ik1100 875p chipset mobo
gigabyte radeon 9200 agp8x rv280 chip 128MB
2.4c P4