f12 ati R480 agp dri not working

[Skunk Worx]

I guess my DRI is broken in some way.

The display is washed out and I get only 1.5 fps with glxgears. Any 
ideas on what the problem could be or other commands I could run to 
narrow it down?

I know things are changing rapidly for the older ATI chipsets so is it 
just a matter of "we know and are working the issues"?

Thanks,
John

$ xdpyinfo | grep -i composite
     Composite

$ glxinfo | grep -i direct
direct rendering: Yes

$ glxgears -info
GL_RENDERER   = Mesa DRI R300 (R420 5D4F) 20090101  TCL DRI2
GL_VERSION    = 1.5 Mesa 7.7-devel
GL_VENDOR     = DRI R300 Project
...
9 frames in 6.0 seconds =  1.499 FPS


$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R480 [Radeon 
X800 GTO (PCIE)]

$ grep RADEON /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets:
	ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4850, ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4850 X2,
	ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4870, ATI Mobility RADEON M98,
	ATI RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670], ATI RADEON E4600,
	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400, ATI RADEON E2400, ATI RV610,
(II) RADEON(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
(==) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
(==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
(II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon X850 PRO (R480) (PCIE)" (ChipID = 
0x5d4f)
(II) RADEON(0): AGP card detected
(II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: disabled
(II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 has no monitor section
(II) RADEON(0): Output S-video has no monitor section
(II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 has no monitor section
(II) RADEON(0): EDID for output VGA-0
(II) RADEON(0): EDID for output S-video
(II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-0
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: SAM  Model: 1ad  Serial#: 1112683056
...

$ dmesg | grep -i radeon
[drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
ATOM BIOS: RADEON
radeon 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 4x mode
[drm] radeon: VRAM 256M
[drm] radeon: VRAM from 0x00000000 to 0x0FFFFFFF
[drm] radeon: GTT 128M
[drm] radeon: GTT from 0xF0000000 to 0xF7FFFFFF
radeon 0000:01:00.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 128M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] radeon: 3 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized.
[drm] radeon: cp idle (0x10000C03)
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R420_cp.bin
[drm] radeon: ring at 0x00000000F0000000
[drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[drm] Radeon Display Connectors
fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0