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Radeon X600 and Quake 3

Hello I have a Radeon X600 XT and I'm having trouble getting Quake 3 to run correctly. I've installed the fglrx drivers and that went off without a hitch. I'm getting around 3300 FPS @ 24 bit in glxgears, so the drivers seem to be there and working, but when I go to run Quake 3 (yes 3 not 4) it runs at about .5 frames a second. I can't quite figure out what is wrong, I've Googled about and have been unable to find a solution.

I'm running Slack 10.2 kernel 2.6.14.2, I'm using the the external AGPgart module for fglrx.

Any suggestions? (yes I've gotten the "get an nVidia card you moron" advice a lot, but for right now that's not an otion. :-P

Thanks

It sounds like the fglrx drivers are not working.
Try: glxinfo | grep render
and see if 'direct rendering' is a yes or no.
If it is yes, try fgl_glxgears.

I may be wrong, as I have only briefly tested fglrx and 2.6.14, but I do not think the ATI drivers support this kernel yet. I could be wrong.

anyone else got them working ?

Mine says yes on 2.6.12.6
but get alot of errors with fgl_glxgears

Code:

[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.19.10 [Nov  9 2005] on minor 0

[fglrx] ACPI power management is initialized.

[fglrx] free  PCIe = 54804480

[fglrx] max  PCIe = 54804480

[fglrx] free  LFB = 55504896

[fglrx] max  LFB = 55504896

[fglrx] free  Inv = 0

[fglrx] max  Inv = 0

[fglrx] total Inv = 0

[fglrx] total TIM = 0

[fglrx] total FB  = 0

[fglrx] total PCIe = 16384

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

[fglrx] free  PCIe = 54804480

[fglrx] max  PCIe = 54804480

[fglrx] free  LFB = 55504896

[fglrx] max  LFB = 55504896

[fglrx] free  Inv = 0

[fglrx] max  Inv = 0

[fglrx] total Inv = 0

[fglrx] total TIM = 0

[fglrx] total FB  = 0

[fglrx] total PCIe = 16384

[fglrx] free  PCIe = 54804480

I have one of those Xpress on a laptop;
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
4223 frames in 5.0 seconds = 844.600 FPS
4220 frames in 5.0 seconds = 844.000 FPS
4221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 844.200 FPS