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Old 10-14-2005, 05:53 PM   #1
biojayc
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Breezy and ati


I have a dell inspiron 9200 with an ati mobility radion 9600/9700 and had the driver fglrx working fine in hoary but am having trouble getting it to work in breezy.

I installed the fglrx-control package after the fresh install, but I'm still having problems. here is part of my xorg.conf file:
Code:
Section "Device"
	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 M10/M11 (RV350 NP)"
	Driver		"fglrx"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection



Code:
$ fglrxinfo
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)
Here is glxgears if it helps:
Code:
$ glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
983 frames in 5.4 seconds = 182.379 FPS
960 frames in 5.3 seconds = 181.144 FPS
960 frames in 5.3 seconds = 179.891 FPS

any ideas?
 
Old 10-15-2005, 11:44 PM   #2
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You might check to see if your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file contains this section, which I have had to add by hand after every operation that somehow changed my xorg.conf file:

Code:
Section "DRI"
      Mode 0666
EndSection
Without it, the direct-rendering engine wouldn't work. With it, it did.
 
Old 10-16-2005, 01:22 AM   #3
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actually that is present. the weird thing is that I'm using xorg, not xfree86. I dont' know why it gave me that error before.
 
Old 10-16-2005, 11:21 AM   #4
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Originally posted by biojayc
actually that is present. the weird thing is that I'm using xorg, not xfree86. I dont' know why it gave me that error before.
As I understand it, xorg is XFree86 "reincarnated" because of trouble regarding the path and philosophy of development of the XFree86 project--so the name XFree86 will still appear in a lot of places but basically refers now to what's called xorg. That's probably why the error message uses the term XFree86. In fact, till a few months ago the xorg.conf file in my setup was only a symbolic link to a XFree86.conf file, which is the one I had to actually edit to make changes.

Have you tried using the "ati" generic driver as an experiment? That's the driver I use, but then my card is an old Rage Fury card and not a Radeon.

I hope somebody more knowledgable than me and who has a Radeon card will step in and give some suggestions. Meanwhile, have you tried asking on the Ubuntu Forums? I've received a lot of helpful advice there on many kinds of problems.
 
Old 10-16-2005, 03:51 PM   #5
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yeah, I've read several things on the Ubuntu forums, but nothing that has gotten it to work correctly yet.

Thanx for clarifying about the xorg/xfree86 deal.
 
  


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