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Perdido
10-04-2003, 08:40 AM
I have one laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 running Debian Sid with XFree86 4.2.

I installed the official drivers from ATI web and everything seems to be OK..., but the 3D graphic acceleration. If I run games like Tuxracer, the graphics play very slow.

Any idea?.

Thanks.
Icarus
10-04-2003, 12:26 PM
Sounds like Direct Rendering is not working. If you run glxinfo | grep direct does it come back with direct rendering: Yes?
If it's no, DRI is not on

Did you run the fglrxconfig after installing the drivers? And in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 are you using the "fglrx" driver?

What kind of laptop? I've got a Dell 600m, here's my XF86Config (http://paradoxinc.net/files/XF86Config)
Perdido
10-04-2003, 04:49 PM
Sounds like Direct Rendering is not working. If you run glxinfo | grep direct does it come back with direct rendering: Yes?
If it's no, DRI is not on


This is the output I get:

>direct rendering: No
>OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

So, it seems that the problem is that Direct Rendering is not working.

What must I do in order to have it working?.


Did you run the fglrxconfig after installing the drivers? And in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 are you using the "fglrx" driver?


Yes. I run fglrxconfig and I am using the "fglrx" driver.


What kind of laptop? I've got a Dell 600m, here's my XF86Config (http://paradoxinc.net/files/XF86Config)


My XF86Config is almost exactly the same than yours (except some lines defining the Spanish keyboard).
Icarus
10-04-2003, 08:49 PM
For some reason DRI isn't working then...hmmm....I hate when it should work and it doesn't :)

Is the fglrx module loaded? lsmod | grep fglrx

In not load it with modprobe fglrx then check again if it is loaded and then restart X once it is...then try the DRI checking again...
Perdido
10-05-2003, 09:14 AM
Is the fglrx module loaded? lsmod | grep fglrx



No. It isn't loaded.



In not load it with modprobe fglrx then check again if it is loaded and then restart X once it is...then try the DRI checking again...



When I run modprobe fglrx I get the following error message:

> modprobe: Can't locate module fglrx

One more time: any idea?.

Thank you in advance.
Perdido
10-05-2003, 11:37 AM
News:

Looking for information in Google I have seen a solution. I have built the module by myself using the make.sh script in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_module.

Then I have installed the newly built module with 'cd .. ; make_install.sh'.

And now, almost everything is OK: I can run my favorite games without problems. But I say "almost" because I have a new problem: I have lost the console. If I type CRTL+ALT+F1 to go to the console what I have is "noise" in the screen.

Any help?.
Perdido
10-06-2003, 02:30 PM
Using Google one more time (what a wonderful tool!), I have read that it could be a framebuffer problem.

I don't know anything about bramebuffer and how to solve the problem.

Could you help me?.
Icarus
10-06-2003, 02:57 PM
I don't know framebuffers very either, the best I could find is this about ATI cards
http://sunsite.ui.ac.id/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html#ss4.6
You need to recompile your kernel for support it appears...

Anyone else want to help with this? I know we have a couple framebuffer gurus around here somewhere :)