Glxgears on ATI rage Pro

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 23:27:00 UTC 2007


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 at 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
> >>     
> > [snip]
> >   
> >> 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
> > [1] http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
> >
> >   
> 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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