3d acceleration, pci ati 9200se, scoured LQ and google for hours, still empty handed
slack 10, default 2.4 kernel
Even though there have been a bunch of posts about this with many solutions, none of the threads have solved my problem. I have an ATI 9200SE (PCI), but I cannot get X to use 3D acceleration for the life of me. Here's a summary of what I have tried: 1. Well first of all, I compiled the newest ATI driver fine, no errors (except a tainted kernel warning, which is ok) 2. I added fglrx to rc.modules (rebooted) 3. ran fglrxconfig, renamed to xorg.conf and replaced old one # ok so at this point I still get that MESA 3d drivers output from fglrxinfo 4. Since my card isn't agp, i commented out that agpgart line from rc.modules, repeated steps 1 - 3, still no luck 5. instead of using the fglrxconfig generated file, i went in my xorg.conf file and replaced the generic radeon driver line with fglrx I read somewhere that DRM shouldn't be compiled into your kernel. I checked the .config file in /usr/src/linux. It is compiled as a module, lsmod shows it as not being there (at least I don't see a module that resembles it, whats the actual module name for the line "CONFIG_DRM_RADEON"?) OK, so thats what I have done. Here's some output from various commands and files to aid whoever can help: parts of /etc/X11/xorg.conf Code:
# Module section -- this section is used to specify Code:
display: :0.0 screen: 0 Code:
Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Code:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:0e:0 Thanks for reading, Wes |
Did you try to simply change the value for BusID in ATI device section like :
BusID "PCI:0:14:1" |
OK, just tried that but I got a (EE) No devices found error right after startx.
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Did anyone get the fglrx drivers to work with PCI? Is it even possible, because I read the drivers didn't support PCI?
Running slackware 10 w/ stock kernel (2.4.26) w/ radeon 9200SE PCI. I tried running the install as if it were agp, IE- TheRepublic's howto, and I can get 2-d and xorg running, but I can't seem to get 3-d accel working. Fglrxgears comes up with an error, can tell you what right now as I'm posting from windows. I know this is a month old thread, but I figured this is the best place post my question. TIA to anyone that can help! |
I am having the same exact problem. I have tried everything on this forum with no luck and I'm running mandrake 10. If anyone out there has the 9200se working on there system just let us know if it is possible to get 3D support or if were sh*t out of luck. My system runs good otherwise just have to pick cheesy screensavers.
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change this in your ocnfig and give it a try
BusID "PCI:0:14:0" # vendor=1002, device=5964 change to: # BusID "PCI:0:14:0" # vendor=1002, device=5964 |
Which config file? I know I've seen where to do that somewhere, but I can't remember which directory.
It's not in the xorg.conf file, nor any of the built-in backups. TIA |
Xf86 config file in mandrake 10 its under /etc/x11 in slack I don't remember if its the same or not.
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Okay, this is interesting, lol.
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# === ATI device section === Code:
# This loads the GLX module |
One question: do the proprietary ATI drivers actually work with X.org? On their website they offer drivers for 3 versions of XFree86 (4.1.0, 4.2.0 & 4.3.0) but surely that's a different kettle of fish?
If we want to use these drivers don't we need to uninstall X.org and install XFree86 instead? |
I'm not sure, but I think everyone is switching to xorg because XFree86 now wants money for further updates, while xorg is the same thing basically and doesn't <-- I THINK. Look on the xorg website, it should tell you more.
Anyway, can someone give some input as to why I'm only getting 150fps when I use driver "radeon" w/ dri module and only 85-100fps on driver "fglrx" w/dri? I installed fglrx just like the first post, no luck getting better fps, but I got X working. I posted my xorg.conf file that I'm using in my last post^^^. TIA |
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I found out on another thread that X.org works like XFree86 4.3 and the proprietary ATI drivers for this version should work OK. |
Like I said, I'm not 100% sure, lol. I can't remember where I read that, sorry. BTW, the ATI drivers do "work", at least for AGP, but unfortunetly they don't fully support PCI, or at least that's what I read in some of the threads here... I have a pci radeon 9200SE and was wondering if anyone here has ever gotten it to work? Or gotten 3-d accel on another driver with radeon 9200SE pci? TIA
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