<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.3.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:26 -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:44:42AM -0500, Hoover, Tony wrote: > > I just got my SX running AC1.0 with a Radeon 9000 PCI late last week, and > have been a bit disappointed in the GL performance. I'm getting less than 5 > Frames per Second on most of the 3D screen savers. Remind me: the 9000 has what chipset? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> (--) PCI:*(0:6:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] rev 1 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > I assume that the 3D rendering is being done in software, instead of the 3D > engine in the Radeon. How can I enable it to use the 3D acceleration of the > graphics card? Is it possible that there's no Load "dri" int the config file? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Nope, it's there. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Also, it may be that 6.7 didn't support the 9000 chipset; you could try the 6.8.2 version from the "development" tree if you're brave... ;-} </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> This is 6.8.1, according to the log file does this snippet from my log mean anything?: (II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Disabled drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:06.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:00:06.0 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver (II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:00:06.0" (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xfffffffc00446000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xfffffffc00446000 to 0x2000001c000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x10000000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xfffffffc00446000 at 0x2000001c000 (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191) (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1024) to (1280,1026) (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7165 (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration enabled (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion Solid Lines Scanline Image Writes Offscreen Pixmaps Setting up tile and stipple cache: 32 128x128 slots 32 256x256 slots 16 512x512 slots (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1026) (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7161 (**) Option "dpms" (**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (==) RandR enabled but that dev exists... [hoover@sx ~]$ ls -la /dev/dri total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Oct 2 14:42 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 5000 Oct 2 14:42 .. crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 226, 0 Oct 2 14:42 card0 Sorry if I included too much info, but I figured it's better to give too much instead of too little. Thanks in advance for any troubleshooting. Tony </BODY> </HTML>