Emret

Hello, Time to wake this thread up again.

Recently I had to reinstall Mandriva 2007. I connected a malfunctioning external harddrive that could not be read in Windows (although formatted with NTFS, so notice the amount of irony here). The disc could be read in linux so I tried copying the files that needed to be rescued over to my hard drive without paying attention to the space on my disk... my linux disk became over filled and I ran out of disc space. Everytime I tried to log into Mandriva I was thrown back to the login page with numerous error messages about various config files that could be written due to the disc being full.

So, I wiped the entire disc out and reinstalled Mandriva. I managed to get 3d acceleration up and running. Fglrxinfo says that the Ati driver is loaded for OpenGL rendering and Chromium works like charm to prove that 3d acceleration is actually working. However, when I go to the Mandriva Control Center and bring up the properties for the 3d desktop all my options for enabling 3d desktop is greyed out. Have I missed to install something?

Cheers!

/Emret

I had that problem too with games, what i found is that i had to remove the 3d desktop and to change :

 

Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

 

to

 

Option "OpenGLOverlay" "on"

 

After that, i was able to play games in full screen mode, at the resolution i wanted.

 

Let me know if it works for you.

 

PS: Before that change, i couldn't check my FPS with gears.

I checked GLXGears and It was not that bad... guess the problem was temporary. Both TuxKart and Chromium now runs like a charm in full screen (The Chromium problem was solved by running the -config and setting it up to my desired resolution and full screen). My Gears fps was around 2k so I'm pleased with that.

I have encountered another problem though.... It might just be a bug in XGL but still it is very annoying. When I Mandriva boots up and I am logging in to KDE I sometimes (actually 90% of the times) noticed that XGL is not properly loaded... the windows decorations are not loaded and everything is extremely slow. Sometimes restarting X with ctrl+alt+backspace is enought but today I had to reboot the computer and restarting X numerous times before everything was loaded correctly. Whats the problem here?

Then again, once XGL has successfully loaded everying works like charm (except for composite windows, but I'll have to manage without)

//Emret

I managed to get it to work... but not AIGLX just XGL... and I cannot run any other OpenGL applications properly.

For example, Chromium and TuxRacer only run in window mode and at a resolution of 800*600. If I try to change these settings X immideatly crashes. And both TuxRacer and Chromium runs at half the fps I had with Mandriva 2006.

Also when I have AmaroK running the over all 3d desktop performance is horribly low.

I do not know wheter the problems lies with the drivers for the graphics card (Ati Radeon 9800 PRO)...

if anyone have a clue on how to improve the performance, please share.

//Emret

Here is my xorg.conf just in case:

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)


Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Samsung"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster"
HorizSync 30-81
VertRefresh 56-85
ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.0 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630
ModeLine "768x576" 63.1 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc."
BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DPMS"

# === disable PnP Monitor  ===
#Option							  "NoDDC"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
Option "no_accel"				   "no"
Option "no_dri"					 "no"
# === FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ===
# === Screen Management ===
Option "DesktopSetup"			   "0x00000000" 
Option "MonitorLayout"			  "AUTO, AUTO"
Option "IgnoreEDID"				 "off"
Option "HSync2"					 "unspecified" 
Option "VRefresh2"				  "unspecified" 
Option "ScreenOverlap"			  "0" 
# === TV-out Management ===
Option "NoTV"					   "yes"	 
Option "TVStandard"				 "NTSC-M"	 
Option "TVHSizeAdj"				 "0"	 
Option "TVVSizeAdj"				 "0"	 
Option "TVHPosAdj"				  "0"	 
Option "TVVPosAdj"				  "0"	 
Option "TVHStartAdj"				"0"	 
Option "TVColorAdj"				 "0"	 
Option "GammaCorrectionI"		   "0x00000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionII"		  "0x00000000"
# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
Option "Capabilities"			   "0x00000000"
# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay"			   "on"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
#	   will be disabled automatically
Option "OpenGLOverlay"			  "off"
Option "CenterMode"				 "off"
# === QBS Support ===
Option "Stereo"					 "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable"		   "1"
# === Misc Options ===
Option "UseFastTLS"				 "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock"		 "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART"		 "no"
Option "ForceGenericCPU"			"no"
# === FSAA ===
Option "FSAAScale"				  "1"
Option "FSAADisableGamma"		   "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos"		 "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5"				"0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5"				"0.000000"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 8
	Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 15
	Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 16
	Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 24
	Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection
EndSection
# File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)
# File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)
# File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)
# File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
# minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs
FontPath "unix/:-1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

# allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
Option "allowmouseopenfail"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "se"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Add this to the bottom of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

 

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

 

and also check near the top of the file in the modules section for:

 

load "dri"

 

you need these for it to be enabled.

Tried that, didn't work :(

I think for completeness you should tell us which ati card you have

I have an ATi Radeon 9800 PRO

Hi,

Ok, I did as you said and added the repositories from the link.

after giving "urpmi ati" dkms-ati and ati-8.28.8 was installed.

now "lsmod | grep fglrx" gives:

fglrx 394828 0

agpgart 27240 2 fglrx,nvidia_agp

and "fglrxinfo" gives :

Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

display: :0.0 screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5)

still no 3d acceleration....

I found two rpms for the ATI drivers with Mandriva 2007:

ati-8.28.8-3plf2007.0.i586.rpm and

dkms-ati-8.28.8-3plf2007.0.i586.rpm

when I tried to install ati-8.28.8-3plf2007.0.i586.rpm I was told that dkms-ati-8.28.8-3plf2007.0.i586.rpm

was missing and when I tried to install dkms-ati-8.28.8-3plf2007.0.i586.rpm

I was told that ati-xorg.8.28 was missing. I downloaded these files from RPM Search since they was not found on my URPMI repository (Iused the Easy-Urpmi on this site, the link on the top right)

what to do next?

//Emret

Hi, Thanx for your answer.

entering "lsmod | grep fglrx" as root does not return anything. So I figure the module is not loaded, just as I suspected.

I have compiled the kernel module but It still does not load.

"fglrxinfo" returns this:

Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

display: :0.0 screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5)

where might I find this plf repository (sorry for the stupid question)?

//Emret

Hi,

I've just installed Mandriva 2007 but I cannot get the FGLRX module to load and hence no 3d acceleration.

I've been going thru numerous forum posts but I cannot find a solution.

I have downloaded and installed the 8.28.8 drivers from the ATi Website and compiled the kernel module. This procedure was enough to get 3d-acceleration to work in Mandriva 2006 but this does not work any more. If I run aticonfig --initial X won't start saying that the modules could not be loaded. I really want to get 3d Acceleration to work so that I can try out the new 3d desktop.

Any suggestions?

//Emret

Hi,

This is my first post I think. I have however been here lots of times before. It's a greate forum.

As the topic says I am wondering if an upgrade to KDE 3.5.3 would be worth considering? I am currently running 3.4.2 and everything is working fine, no problems at all. If it's one thing I've learned during my time with Linux it is that if something is working do not try to fix it. However, when reading that KDE 3.5.3 would be much faster and have many bug fixes I was a bit tempted to try it. I am still considering it but there are a few things holding me back. I have found other threads in this forum describing how to go through the installation process. My question is:

If I follow the steps mentioned in the thread a few threads down, will everything be exactly as it was before upgrading? What I mean is will my Home directory be left intact or will it be erased? And my screensavers and windows decorations and stuff like that? And the shortcuts on the K-menu for my installed apps? I don't want to screw things up since I don't feel like reinstalling the system completely.