Radeon Mobility M6 LY 3D acceleration on FC2

Vadim Tarassov vadim.tarassov at swissonline.ch
Sun May 23 15:26:34 UTC 2004


Hi,

almost same here with Radeon 9600 Pro. If you'll look a bit further in 
XOrg.log you will probably find something similar to

(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 9500/9700 
and newer cards

Regards, vadim tarassov.

Miles Sabin wrote:

>I've just done a fresh FC2 install on a Sony PGC-Z1XSP which comes with 
>an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY and a 1400x1050 panel. 2D is fine, but 
>according to glxinfo (and visible with glxgears and gl apps) direct 
>rendering isn't enabled.
>
>I believe that the standard kernel and xorg modules should support 3D 
>acceleration with this chip, so there's clearly something wrong with my 
>setup. I can't see anything obvious (to me) amiss and I've checked 
>bugzilla and STFA'd without finding anything helpful, so any advice 
>from this list would be much appreciated.
>
>lspci -v gives me this for the controller,
>
>  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon \
>    Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>          Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8140
>          Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66Mhz, medium \
>    devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9
>          Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>          I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
>          Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>          Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
>          Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
>I find the following in /var/log/messages,
>
>  kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
>  kernel: agpgart: Detected an Intel 855PM Chipset.
>  kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
>  kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
>  ...
>  kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.9.0 20020828 on minor 0
>
>However, lsmod doesn't show the radeon module, which I think should be 
>expected.
>
>My xorg.conf includes,
>
>  Section "Module"
>          Load  "dbe"
>          Load  "extmod"
>          Load  "fbdevhw"
>          Load  "glx"
>          Load  "record"
>          Load  "freetype"
>          Load  "type1"
>          Load  "dri"
>  EndSection
>
>and,
>
>  Section "DRI"
>          Group        0
>          Mode         0666
>  EndSection
>
>And /var/log/Xorg shows the controller being correctly detected and 
>identified and the dri/drm/ati/radeon modules loading successfully. 
>However, towards the end I see,
>
>  (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
>
>Any help and/or pointers would be much appreciated. Any other relevant 
>info available on request.
>
>TIA ...
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Miles
>
>
>  
>





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