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Radeon 9800 3D Acceleration

I did do a search but I did not find anything that referenced 3D acceleration for a Radeon 9800 Pro.

I'm using SuSE Linux 9.1, I had installed the drivers that I downloaded from the ATI website, but 3D acceleration was not being supported. So, I went to the support section and they told me to go to the DRI website and download and install their binaries, so I did so. I did that configured and installed, but I'm still not getting 3D acceleration. I cannot play games because it's bogged up so terribly bad.

Please someone tell me how to fix this. :) Thanks.

Use the ati drivers. ( these support 3D accelaration ) and make sure that the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file is using the correct driver.

Then in a console type glxinfo and make sure the output mentions ati.

I will reinstall them and give it another whirl.

I'm not getting any 3D acceleration. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or not.

Post all the output form fglrx and exactly what you did, otherwise we cannot see what's going wrong.

did you compile fglrx module? i had same problems, after i compiled them, everything was ok....

Are you using a NForce2 motherboard? if so, i am having the same problem.... :(

Zaraza: If they were from the ATI drivers, yes, I did. If not, then no.
Zidane: Nope. I have an ASUS A7V8X

Ok, I went through force installed the RPM from ATI website once again, and read it very carefully. It said I needed to build the fglrx modules in lib/modules/fgrlx/build_mod, so I went there and executed command: sh make.sh to compile the module. But I am getting an error that says:

Code:

ATI module generator V 2.0

==========================

initializing...

kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete

file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h

If it is incomplete, how can I complete it? Where can I get it? I'm running SuSE 9.1, with kernel 2.6 and XFree86 4.4

If you know how I can resolve this, let me know, thanks!

Have you installed your kernel source?
This is required to build the modules

Bleeeeh...
Okay, I built the modules from the linux sources, and re-ran the ATI drivers. Everything seems to install correctly, and my XF86Config-4 says that the driver is: fglrx. But I still cannot get 3D acceleration, when I type fglrxinfo I still get Mesa settings.

Code:

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 6.1)

What could be going wrong? :/

In the modules section at the top of the XF86Config-4 there must be an entry for glx. this maybe missing. Also what your output log for xfree look like? any errors, and what modules are loaded, ( of course anything that mentions ati would also be useful ). just post them here.

( usually /var/log/XFree86.0.log is where XFree puts the log. )

tyr reinstalling and compiling the driver again then when you are configuring it via fglrx make sure you say use external module then reboot everything should work although I have never been able to get the thing working after a second reboot. It all goes back to mesa string after the second reboot. Can anyone say what I can do to make the module load at boot time?
- Hope this helps

Modules are set in modules.conf, usually distros have diffrent tools to help you set this up. try looking through your distros site for module configuration.

Okay, leanscape, I was looking through my Free86.0.log for any Failures, and this is what I found:

Code:

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)

(WW) fglrx(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA.  Will restore with default

(II) fglrx(0): UMM area:    0xe8953000 (size=0x076ad000)

(II) fglrx(0): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x

(II) fglrx(0): detected XFree86 version: 4.3.99

(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI

(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0

drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)

drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)

drmOpenDevice: Open failed

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0

drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)

drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)

drmOpenDevice: Open failed

[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"

(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed

(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!

(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): ********************************************* *

(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xe8000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000

(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1600,8191)

(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1600,1200) (front color buffer - assumption)

(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled

(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled

(II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1200)

(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1600 x 6988

(**) Option "dpms"

(**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled

(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)

        Screen to screen bit blits

        Solid filled rectangles

        Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines

        Offscreen Pixmaps

        Setting up tile and stipple cache:

                32 128x128 slots

                32 256x256 slots

                16 512x512 slots

(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled

(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering disabled

Hopefully, I got all the errors there.

In my XF86Config-4 file, I do see a module setting that says:

Code:

Load "glx"

Thanks