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Poor graphics performance

My Radeon 9800 Pro is giving me problems. I tried to install a game last night and it is completely unplayable. So I installed glxgears and I am getting a frame rate of ~300 and ~40 in full screen. I am using the latest ATI drivers, does anybody have any suggestions? This is on Slack 10 btw.

hi there,

what's the output of " $glxinfo " ?

and you can look in the file " /var/log/xorg.0.log " if it reports warnings/errors.

egag

Run 'fglrxinfo' in a console and check its output. If it says 'Mesa 3D' then the ATi drivers aren't installed properly, if it returns 'ATi Technologies Inc' then your problem lies elsewhere, and I would recommend following egag's instructions to try and find your problem.

Code:

name of display: :0.0

display: :0  screen: 0

direct rendering: No

server glx vendor string: SGI

server glx version string: 1.2

server glx extensions:

    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,

    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,

    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig

client glx vendor string: ATI

client glx version string: 1.3

client glx extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,

    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,

    GLX_ATI_render_texture

GLX extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,

    GLX_ARB_multisample

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)

OpenGL extensions:

    GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,

    GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,

    GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,

    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,

    GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,

    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,

    GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias

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  0  0  0  0  0  1 0 None

0x24 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  1 0 None

0x25 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None

0x26 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None

0x27 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  1 0 None

0x28 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  1 0 None

0x29 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None

0x2a 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  1 0 None

I guess this means I dont have the ATI drivers installed properly...

yip, it's not ( yet ) correct.
look in /var/log/xorg.0.log for errors.......

" grep '(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log "

will output them

edit : it's X rather then x

egag

Code:

(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): 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"

They are the only errors I can see... what does this mean?

do you use " startx " to start graph. or do you have a gaph. login screen ?

in the first case, logout of X and do a " #modprobe fglrx "

any errors.?

also look at the modules that are loaded ( $lsmod ).
if the radeon driver is loaded, the fglrx-module won't load.

egag

hmmm fglrx not found.

how did you install it ?

does it exist ?

egag

sorry to bring this back but I still have this problem. If i modprobe agpgart before startx it does appear in lsmod but I still get the same problems as before.
lsmod:

Module Size Used by
agpgart 35244 0
fglrx 240480 0
snd_pcm_oss 54440 1
snd_mixer_oss 20736 2 snd_pcm_oss
uhci_hcd 34188 0
nvidia_agp 8092 1
ohci_hcd 34948 0
ehci_hcd 43396 0
usbcore 130660 5 uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nvnet 71332 0
snd_intel8x0 34600 4
snd_ac97_codec 72528 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 98820 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 26372 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10248 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 8576 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 26020 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8456 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 56804 13 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi, snd_seq_device
soundcore 10464 3 snd
evdev 9600 0

Can anybody help me?

did you run the ati configuration utility ? (just a sloppy question)

if yes, try to download the binary package from linuxpackage. It workedwonder with
my Radeon 9000.

hope it helps.

regards,
jonas

Would it be anything to do with nvidia_agp being in use? Is this a motherboard driver( I have nforce board), or a graphics thing?.

Which package at linuxpackages.net do you recommend? I could not find it.