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Very low (0-2) fps in 3D games, using radeon 9800 pro

Hi. First I had problems with OpenGL & GLX, I couldn't play 3D games.
After getting past that problem I faced a new one: FPS 0-2 while running fluxbox, 0-3 without any WM, running games such as *cough* FreedroidRPG *cough* or Egoboo :)
I'm using Ati Radeon 9800 Pro, fglrx driver.
Help would be appreciated.

My guess would be that even though you're saying you're using those drivers, you really aren't.

After installing the drivers, did you make the change to your xorg.conf or XFwhatever file to actually "use" the drivers?

I replaced the previous driver-entries in xorg.conf generated by xorgconfig.

And you restarted your X session, cntl+alt+backspace?

Yup. Same results using fglrxconfig.
Ah, got some errors too:

Code:

bash-2.05b# dmesg | tail

eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1

Fire GL built-in AGP-support

Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann

agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M

agpgart: Detected nVidia nForce2 chipset

agpgart: Bridge device is in AGP v3 mode

agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000

Power management callback for AGP chipset installed

[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState  = 0x00000000 (hardware caps of chipset)

[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 8696 using kernel context 0

and

Code:

 bash-2.05b# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER

(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM"

(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP

------------------------------------------------------------------------

bash-2.05b# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

(WW) fglrx(0): could not detect XFree86 version (query_status=-3)

(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************

(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *

(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *

(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)            *

(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *

(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

Sorry, don't know what to tell you, although it's weird that it says it found an nvidia chipset when it's an ATI you're using. I'm guessing that the nvidia chipset is an onboard video? ATI is in the AGP slot?

Mobo: MSI K7N2 Delta2 LSR - nForce chipset
Ati in the AGP-slot.