On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:09 -0400, Brendan Kempf wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:01 -0700, Les wrote:
Hi, everyone, the ongoing battle of the graphics cards. My "good" read high speed full development system runs well. However I want to use an older system with Croquet. Problem: the older system appears misconficured somehow. It has an ATI Rage Pro graphics chip set according to lspci, And the graphics configuration for X sets it up as a Rage board OK. I have attempted to down load the latest ATI driver for it, but unsuccessfully, so I suspect I will have to attempt that late tonight when there is less traffic. In the mean time, I am working to discover what I can about the current setup that is bad. I went throght the configuration on Finley's site, and it appeared to work OK, then when I rebooted, it began to reconfigure the graphics on every reboot. And I still have low performance, and moreover seem to have lost a bit of software from the graphics interface. Here is the output from glxgears: [lesh@localhost ~]$ glxgears Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". 541 frames in 6.1 seconds = 89.342 FPS 452 frames in 5.6 seconds = 80.584 FPS
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Does anyone have any idea of what I should try next? Or where I could look for debugging this program?
Regards, Les H
Sadly enough, there's no easy solution for your problem. For the time being I'm forced to download/patch/build/install the DRI drivers (and the mesa RPM) for my mach64 based laptop display by hand. On the upside, the next kernel - libDRI sync will most likely include the latest mach64/rage/rage128 drivers paving the pay to a out-of-the-box experience.
In the mean time, if you're willing to put an effort into it, do the following: A. Download the latest rage128 snapshot from freedesktop [1]. You'll need to patch it to make it compatible withe latest kernel. (Let me know if you need help.) B. Build and install the rage128 DRI kernel module using the build-in install.sh script. C. As far as I remember, the mesa RPM already includes the user-land rage128 DRI driver, so there's no need to patch and rebuild the mesa SRPM. (One of my least favorite tasks :()
- Gilboa
Have you made sure that composite has been turned off? That was the trick to making my mobility x700 work perfectly and after running fglrxinfo show that it was in fact using ati libraries.
Naah. This is not a configuration problem - its a missing driver problem.
- Gilboa
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Gilboa Davara