Hello,

I'm a Redhat9 user, using kernel 2.4.20-8. I have an ATI Radeon 9800 graphics card that I'd like to use when running 3d applications. At the moment ALL OpenGL applications are so slow, like 1-2fps. I noticed that I don't have 3d hardware acceleration on. I've installed the correct drivers and stuff, how the hell do I enable the hardware acceleration?


Misc info if needed:

XFree86 version: 3.4.0

"diret rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect" - from when using 'glxinfo | grep direct'

"server glx version string: 1.2
client glx version string: 1.3
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
glu version: 1.3" - from when using 'glxinfo | grep version'

"display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4" - from when using 'fglrxinfo'

It seems like the Ati drivers doesn't install the correct GL library, since I get the Mesa GLX Indirect renderer ..

Hardware:

AMD Athlon XP2500+ Barton 1.8ghz
nVidia NF7-S rev 2.0 (nForce2) motherboard
ATi Radeon 9800



Thanks in advance!
/ iskpl

Hi,
try this one, it fixed all my problems on my ATI Radeon...
(from Mandrake expert)

The AGPGART driver will only run in try_unsupported mode on many of the
newer motherboard chipsets.

To activate this mode add this option to your "/etc/modules.conf" file:

options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1

Didn't improve much, but thanks anyway

It sounds like you are a newbie.
First thing you needs to do was to download a driver from ati.com
then follow instruction in README file to install the driver to enable your 3D acceleration.
Most likely, i wouldn't work, because i been dealing with it for a longtime.
But i would refer to you download a driver at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=84566
with an *.zip extention to enable your 3d acceleration