help with graphics hardware acceleration...
 

ATI Radeon 9200SE did have hardware acceleration and then suddenly it wasn't there anymore...

i cant be exactly 100% sure but i did notice that i didnt have hardware acceleration after trying the mesa libraries from CVS... however i did remove them completely later...

but since noticing that hardware acceleration wasn't working i've re-compiled the kernel with and without the radeon driver... not compiling the the XFREE 4.1 within the kernel as a module or built in...

even tried the ati drivers with no luck...

is there a couple of files or just one single file that is responsible for enabling hardware acceleration under linux...

kernel version 2.4.29... latest ATI drivers downloaded today... right now running kernel 2.4.30...




output from glxinfo...
marsques@darkstar:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: Brian Paul
server glx version string: 1.4 Mesa 6.2.1
server glx extensions:
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_pixmap_colormap,
GLX_MESA_release_buffers, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
client glx vendor string: Brian Paul
client glx version string: 1.4 Mesa 6.2.1
client glx extensions:
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_pixmap_colormap,
GLX_MESA_release_buffers, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
GLX extensions:
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_pixmap_colormap,
GLX_MESA_release_buffers, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
OpenGL vendor string: Brian Paul
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa X11
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 6.2.1
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_imaging,
GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shadow,
GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two,
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_convolution,
GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_paletted_texture, GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette,
GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture,
GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels,
GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_HP_occlusion_test,
GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip,
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_INGR_blend_func_separate,
GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_program_debug, GL_MESA_resize_buffers,
GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_blend_square,
GL_NV_fragment_program, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_point_sprite,
GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_vertex_program,
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table,
GL_SGI_texture_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,
GL_SGIS_pixel_texture, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
GL_SGIX_pixel_texture, GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient,
GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2b 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2e 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2f 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x32 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None





xorg.conf dri drivers...

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

# Chipset "generic"

# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.

Driver "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.

# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"

# VideoRam 256

# Clocks 25.2 28.3

EndSection

# Device configured by xorgconfig:

Section "Device"
Identifier "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]"
Driver "radeon"
#VideoRam 131072
Option "DPMS"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection






xorg.conf ATI drivers

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

# Chipset "generic"

# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.

Driver "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# installed.

# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"

# VideoRam 256

# Clocks 25.2 28.3

EndSection

# === ATI device section ===

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver "fglrx"
# ### generic DRI settings ###
# === disable PnP Monitor ===
#Option "NoDDC"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
# === misc DRI settings ===
Option "mtrr" "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr
# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###
# === Screen Management ===
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000000"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"
Option "HSync2" "unspecified"
Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
# === TV-out Management ===
Option "NoTV" "yes"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
# will be disabled automatically
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===
Option "CenterMode" "off"
# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
# === QBS Management ===
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
# === FSAA Management ===
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
# === Misc Options ===
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=5964
Screen 0
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "backingstore"

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection



thanks in advance...

Yourve got 2 screen sections there try commenting out the top one it. I would assume xorg loads the first one therefore its loading your video card config without hardware acceleration turned on.

i checked the xorg.conf files the default one, the one for the radeon and the fglrx (ATI Proprietary driver) and in all three the screen is known as "Screen 1" this was the same xorg.conf file that hardware acceleration was working before under...

i remember , after trying the fglrx-driver ( that didn't work ), my 9200se wouldn't use graph. acceleration anymore.
i solved it by re-installing xorg.

just logout to the textscreen, remove all xorg-packages and reinstall them from the cd.

i think some link wasn't properly set back when uninstalling fglrx, but i couldn.t find the error.
reinstalling X worked.

egag

thanks egag... tried your suggestion removed x11-6.8.2 and the x11-devel packages and reinstalled them... but no luck...

hmm.... i have this in my xorg.conf :
----------
Section "Device"
Identifier "card"
Driver "radeon"
ChipId 0x5964
Option "Overlay"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
EndSection
-------------

did you edit it back, or do you still ( try to ) use the fglrx driver ?

egag

what is the mesa version in your $glxinfo output?

egag@Slack21:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
....etc....

i think you mean this.....?

edit:

no .......this

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20040929 AGP 1x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.2.1



egag

just checked $dmesg once X loaded up and the last bit of the out put is this...
PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:8000000@d8000000 for device 01:00.0
PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:8000000@d8000000 for device 01:00.0
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.16.0 20050311 on minor 0: PCI device 1002:5964 (ATI Technologies Inc)
[drm] Used old pci detect: framebuffer loaded
[drm] Loading R200 Microcode

could that be an issue?

take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
that must give a clue....

egag

went in to /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and then just after it checks for the ramdac there is all this...

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 7
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:00.0"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe0cf0000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe0cf0000 to 0x40024000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xd8000000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Mode 0x1f000201 [AGP 0x1106/0x3116; Card 0x1002/0x5964]
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0x00000001
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring handle = 0xd0000000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring mapped at 0x482fd000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring read ptr handle = 0xd0101000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring read ptr mapped at 0x40026000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] vertex/indirect buffers handle = 0xd0102000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Vertex/indirect buffers mapped at 0x483fe000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART texture map handle = 0xd0302000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART Texture map mapped at 0x485fe000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] register handle = 0xe9000000
(II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
(II) RADEON(0): CP in BM mode
(II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB GART aperture
(II) RADEON(0): Using 1 MB for the ring buffer
(II) RADEON(0): Using 2 MB for vertex/indirect buffers
(II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for GART textures
(II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1024,8191)
(II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,768) to (1024,770)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7421
(II) RADEON(0): Will use back buffer at offset 0x700000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use depth buffer at offset 0x880000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 120832 kb for textures at offset 0xa00000
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
Solid Lines
Scanline Image Writes
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
32 256x256 slots
16 512x512 slots
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
(==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
(==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 770)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7413
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "Overlay" is not used
(II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
(II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] Mapped 32 vertex/indirect buffers
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 11
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel GART heap manager, 5111808
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE

and then it loads the drivers for the mouse...

however looks like direct rendering was enabled... but not in the glxinfo output... i did also run glxgears which when direct rendering was there it ran at aroud 1000 fps but now only runs at 290fps...

by the way your glxinfo out put differs to mine...

OpenGL vendor string: Brian Paul
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa X11
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 6.2.1

while your vendor is Tungstan Graphics... mine is Brian Paul!

yip, it sais " direct rendering enabled " ?

but what libglx do you have ?

i have :
----
root@Slack21:/home/egag# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx*
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 487796 2005-02-14 07:07 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
----

egag

r--r--r-- 1 root root 487796 2005-04-05 20:34 libglx.a

same as yours...

maybe my issue is as in post 9, where there seems to be a problem with reserving memory...

well...i guess there's the error. but what causes it ?

just to be sure: you also have this section in the xorg.conf :
-----
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
-----

( i think you already have that. )

egag

thanks for all your input egag... solved the problem... downloaded the latest dri r200 and common from dri.sf.net and acceleration is back...

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20040929 AGP 1x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.2.1

and its even better than before glxgears is giving around 1350fps...