newbie: 3d in openSuse 10.2

wirefr@me · 02-08-2007, 02:47 AM

Hi,

sorry for the lame questions... but will be grateful if somebody answers them (or points me to some detailed instrunctions)

I have Radeon 1300XT video card. I installed the driver downloaded from AMD/ATI site. Some new resolutions appeared and i assume i did everyting right, but:
a) how can i verify the 3d is working properly? what should be the average rate in glxgears (with 3d installed and without) ?
b) how i can activate the 3d desktop? (compiz)

Sorry if it was asked before - i did not find it.

Thanks in advance.

pda_h4x0r · 02-08-2007, 11:51 PM

1) run "glxinfo" from the terminal. It'll tell you exactly how your 3D system is working. Also, run "glxgears -printfps" with and without the driver loaded to get a feel for how much you're benefiting.
2) simple: install it. Better yet, install Beryl (less complicated, more memory-efficient, better eye-candy).

wirefr@me · 02-09-2007, 12:48 AM

Ok, i've figured out myself - the thing i was asking for is documented in built-in manual

I did not find it at first and shame on me

But next question i have - when i try to resize the window, it's FREAKING slow... Everything except that works fine - the 3d-cube desktop is rotating fine, 3d works and all the stuff is functioning nicely, but when i try to resize the window - it's a hell... even xine pauses for a second...

Anybody met that problem?

pda_h4x0r · 02-09-2007, 12:07 PM

Try using Beryl. Compiz is pretty bloated and requires Xgl to run (which is a *big* memory overhead). I think window resizing is handled by the CPU with Compiz, so the bottle neck shouldn't be the graphics card.

Beryl is smaller and faster in my experience, and doesn't have that problem. You will need to add "Option "AIGLX" "true"" to your xorg.conf file under "ServerLayout" to use it, though.

killy9999 · 02-10-2007, 12:22 PM

http://en.opensuse.org/Howto/ATI_Driver