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looks like i've gotten it working! I blame the nvidia drivers for messing it up! I assume they removed something having to do with DRI. In order to fix this, I killed x, (init 3) and force removed the following packages:
Then i simply reinstalled them. After that, i reinstalled them all in reverse order, ran fglrxconfig, and bam! It was all working! YAY! glxgears is pulling 2500 fps! Thanks to all for you helpful posts. I'm going to go play UT2K4 now
I also have Radeon 9200SE on Fedora Core 1 and was experinceing slow 3D. I fixed mine simply by adding Load = "dri" in the modules section under /etc/X11/XF86Config
I went from a 111 FPS (beofre) to 1000 FPS (after)
Thought I would post incase anyone reading this forum also has the same problem.
I have a 9700 Pro and A7N8X nForce2 mobo, running the 2.6.5 kernel.
glxinfo says:
Code:
direct rendering: Yes
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OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9700 PRO Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.7.6)
lsmod shows that fglrx and nvidia_agp are loaded.
but I still get 70fps @ 1280x1024 in glxgears.
Could anyone point me in the right direction as to which DRI to use (if at all?).
I've read so many posts that I'm thoroughly confused.
Right now I'm trying the 20040208 snapshot, and I have the whole Direct Rendering Manager section disabled in the kernel config.
I have a radeon 7000 and cannot seem to find the correct driver. I cut and paste the above XF86Config-4 by poo smoker into a file in Windows then saved down as text and ported it into my Linux 7.2 (kernel Version 2.4) and the script did not sucessfully bring up my GUI in Linux. Do I need a new driver, do I need to go to XFree86 and download drivers from there, or where do I get a simple ".rpm" or ".run" file to load the correct driver onto my machine? Thank you very much for your time and assistance!
i've also a radeon 7000. The resolution is only good if i use the vesa driver, with the radeon driver i always have a virtual desktop (the screen shows only a part of the desktop, i can scroll to see other parts of the desktop by moving the mouse in this direction). I tried all possible combinations of screen size and bits per pixel but it didn't improve anything. Has anybody experienced the same problem ? How can i solve it ?
With the same release of Linux (7.2), I was sucessful in downloading a GE Force 4 MX driver from NVIDIA's website for another computer and simply modified my XF86Config-4 appropriately. So, what would be the difference as long as I have the correct driver loaded onto my system? And, where can I obtain the correct driver for the Radeon 7000?? Thank you very much Proudclod! Have a great weekend!
Right, basically, ati's proprietary drivers aren't made to work with the Radeon 7000.
That's because the DRI open source drivers, included with recent XFree86, support all features of the 7000, including 3d acceleration.
Your problem is that you have an old version of XFree86, that doesn't (seem to) include the 'radeon' driver needed (see ttp://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html )
I went to the website that you stated in your last post as follows.....
Nightly snapshots of the DRI drivers for Linux are available from http
://www.freedesktop.org/~dri/snapshots/. You need to download and install the correct snapshot for your graphics card and a "common" snapshot in order to get all new DRI features. The "common" snapshot does not need to be updated as frequently as the card-specific snapshot.
If you're running XFree86 4.3 or older then you must install the XFree86 binary from the extras directory or you will not be able to start up XFree86 with the new 2d modules. To do that, use bzip2 -d XFree86.bz2 to decompress the binary, chmod 4755 XFree86 if you don't have a setuid wrapper on your system, and replace /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 with the new binary.
Note: If you are using a radeon 8500 or higher (8500, 8700, 9000, 9100, 9200, etc.) choose the r200 shapshot, otherwise choose radeon (7000, 7200, 7500, etc.).
I downloaded the XFree binary from above and now, I get the error XFree86: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: Version 'GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by XFree86).
Now, what do I do about fixing this BUG??? Do I need to download a newer version of /lib/i686/libc.so.6??
I have an ati radeon ve (7000) working on kanotix bh4 (kernel 2.4.25).
It works in single screen mode mit dri and in dual screen mode with xinerama but without dri.
Hi, when I use the newest module from http://www.freedesktop.org/~dri/snapshots/ , I get
(EE) module ABI minor version (7) is newer than the server's version (6)
Is that enough to know what the problem is, or do I need to post the whole log file?
I have an ati radeon ve (7000) working on kanotix bh4 (kernel 2.4.25).
It works in single screen mode mit dri and in dual screen mode with xinerama but without dri.
glxgears shows
disabling TCL support
2285 frames in 5.0 seconds = 457.000 FPS
2296 frames in 5.0 seconds = 459.200 FPS
2290 frames in 5.0 seconds = 458.000 FPS
2288 frames in 5.0 seconds = 457.600 FPS
Well, i have posted some messages about the 7000 a pair of years ago and i have noticed i was the only one. Now i'm not .
In fact i have never tried dual screen mode, but i would like to see if i have obtained the max performances from my gfx card ( i'm not at home so i don't remember exactly the results, but i try - and if someone wants the config you have only to ask )
1024x768 @ 16bpp: ~ 600 fps with glxgears.
I have just seen you're using 1280x1024 @ 24bpp, i'll try.
Btw i'm using kernel 2.4.22 ( does it count? ) and a p4 1800
And about the things i can found on source forge dri, can someone tell me if they does speed up things?
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i have a radeon 7000 working 3d accellerated in all modes
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