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I have an HP Pavillion ze4600 Laptop, and am running OpenSUSE 10.0.
The problem is no 3d acceleration going on for my ATI Radeon IGP 320m graphics card. I had found a couple of articles on the web, and I followed the instructions, but to no avail. Sax2 wants to use the RS100 driver.
dmesg | grep agpgart produces the right output. It says it is a Radeon IGP 320m.
but when I look at glxinfo, it says that direct rendering is 'no'.
When I run glxgears, I am getting an average of 185 fps.
I spent a lot of time with this before I got it working. I ended up downloading the dri-common and dri-radeon drivers from sourceforge. And before it would work I also had to completely remove the mesa driver. Personally I don't think it's worth the effort. I only went to the trouble for Doom Legacy.
Well, you may be right, but I can't even run Tux Racer, and 7 other of the games that I like to play.
Besides, I hate it when things don't completely work!
don't know if it is true, but I have been reading that there is not a way to get the 3d acceleration to work for the IGP 320 on linux. Does anyone know different? If so, what are the steps that I need to follow inorder to make it successfull?
My laptop has the 320M and I did get it to work, as I previously mentioned. It's not easy. But it was during the time of the first release of Xorg. Maybe the supplied driver works now. An easy thing to try first, since your .conf looks like it's setup for 3d, is to check to see if your user has permissions for the video device. According to your xorg.conf you're setting the dri device to the "video" group. Make sure your user is a member of that group. Also, try logging in as root and see if it works for root. I know it's considered bad practice to log into a gui as root, but it's just a quick glxinfo check.
For mine in particular I had to:
1. Modify my kernel to enable DRM with none of the sub-level drivers
2. Download and install the dri-common and dri-radeon drivers from dri.sourceforge.net
3. Remove (keep backups) all of the mesa files. I have a list of them if you need it later. If they still exist x still uses them which means software rendering.
4. The thing that had me stumped was permissions on the dri device. That's why it might work for root and not a user. If this happens just make your user a member of the group that owns the device.
ok, I found out that I am a member of the video group, ut still not getting 3d acceleration. This is frustrating, but I will not give up. There has to be a way to get this to work.
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ATI Radeon IGP 320m and 3d Acceleration
