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I mean really, i have an ATI Mobility Radeon 16mb agp card on my laptop and in XF86config-4 it says to load module "radeon" for my card so i assume the config is OK. Problem is, in KDE i experience some artifacts (common for software accel - not hardware) like parts of scroll bars or parts of labels etc. I can make them go away by making the window repaint itself, but i'm thinking that i might not be running a hardware accelerated module for my card.

 

So how can i test if i really have hardware acceleration enabled?

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ok, this is what i get from xdpyinfo:

    

   BIG-REQUESTS

   DOUBLE-BUFFER

   DPMS

   Extended-Visual-Information

   FontCache

   GLX

   LBX

   MIT-SCREEN-SAVER

   MIT-SHM

   MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD

   RENDER

   SECURITY

   SGI-GLX

   SHAPE

   SYNC

   TOG-CUP

   XC-APPGROUP

   XC-MISC

   XFree86-Bigfont

   XFree86-DGA

   XFree86-DRI

   XFree86-Misc

   XFree86-VidModeExtension

   XInputExtension

   XKEYBOARD

   XTEST

   XVideo

 

glxgears -info gives:

GL_EXTENSIONS = GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_histogram GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_MESA_window_pos GL_MESA_resize_buffers GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_PGI_misc_hints GL_SGIS_pixel_texture GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp

 

and glxinfo gives:

name of display: :0.0

display: :0  screen: 0

direct rendering: Yes

server glx vendor string: SGI

server glx version string: 1.2

server glx extensions:

   GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

client glx vendor string: SGI

 

so i guess config is ok and it seems to be using HW acceleration.

 

But problem remains... Like when i closed glxgears' window, artifacts remained on mozilla....

My long shot is that KDE is not configured/capable for HW acceleration.

 

 

any suggestions?

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Me, I just run Tux racer. If it flies, means everything is okay. If the mouse crawls accross the screen... well than that means that I don't have graphics acceleration working well :D

 

"My long shot is that KDE is not configured/capable for HW acceleration."

 

Doubt it, RTCW, Quake II and Tuxracer run fine on my ML9 running a KDE desktop.

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Me, I just run Tux racer. If it flies, means everything is okay.

lol :lol:

 

I don't need to do anything, I can tell when X starts, but I run tuxracer to be sure as well. :wink:

 

Kde, should in no way have anything to do with it. If you want to be sure, try another .

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