New subject: Bug with the panel used to change the driver of the video card ?

Friday, 3 September 2004

------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 
01:22:38 +0200 From: Alexander Dalloz 
<alexander.dalloz(a)uni-bielefeld.de&gt; Subject: Re: Bug with the panel used 
to change the driver of the video card ? To: For users of Fedora Core 
releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt; Message-ID: 
<1094167358.3881.394.camel(a)serendipity.dogma.lan&gt; Content-Type: 
text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Am Fr, den 03.09.2004 schrieb Dellacherie 
Stephane um 0:42:

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> I have found that the best driver for my video card should be the
ATI 
> Radeon 64 DDR (AGP) : indeed, my video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 
> graphics controller with user selectable 32-MB or 64-MB DDR SDRAM 4X AGP.

> But, when I check the properties of the video, it is again written (see 
> "Material") that I use the VESA driver (generic) !!!

In fact, I have saw this morning on 
http://www.cyrius.com/contact/index.html that the best dirver for my 
computer should be the ATI Radeon Mobility U1. Thus, now the 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf gives

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility U1"
EndSection

Since this driver is given in the Fedora Core 2 video driver list, I 
have choose it.

But, again, I have the same pb. described before.

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 Did you restart the X server after the change of the graphics driver?

Yes.

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> And, indeed, I think that the video is not at all optimized !

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From what do you conclude that? 
When I run the very simple game Chromium given in the Fedora Core 2 DVD, the results are
very bad even by choising screen size = 800 x 600 and graphics level = low in the Chromium
configuration : the results are so bad that it is impossible to play !!!

Moreover, I can see by using many shell terminals for example that the video has sometimes
difficulties that my very old pc does not have ...).

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> Thus : where is the bug ? Do I have installed the ATI Radeon
driver or 
> not ???

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 You may run "glxinfo" to get some information. 
Ok. This gives :

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_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
    GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
    GLX_SGIS_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.4 Mesa 5.0.2)
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture,
    GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
    GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, 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_transpose_matrix,
    GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
    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_copy_texture,
    GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
    GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
    GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
    GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, 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_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle,
    GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,
    GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
    GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_blend_square,
    GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
    GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
    GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
    GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient
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  0 0 None
0x24 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 None
0x25 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x26 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x27 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x28 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 None
0x29 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2a 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None

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> Moreover, I don't find the monitor driver (my monitor is a
12.1-inch TFT 
> XGA display). Thus, I use :

There is no monitor driver on Linux. There are simply frequency and
desktop size settings.

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>         ModelName    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
>         HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
>         VertRefresh  40.0 - 70.0

...
 Did you get these values from the TFT manual? 
No. It is default values.

...
 Alexander 
Ste'ph

Re: Bug with the panel used to change the driver of the video card ?