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I have a "regular" All-In-Wonder Radeon, with only 32MB of memory, not any of the newer cards, it is just a plain Radeon (not a 8500 or 9800 or a million for that fact). I used to have 3D acceleration back in the days of XFree 4.3 but that changed with mdk 10.1 when it started to use Xorg. I messed around for a while with 10.1 and gave up on 3D acceleration and figured I would wait for the next release and hope that the problem would be fixed (something similar happened between I think 9.1 and 9.2). To my suprise the problem still exists.

 

XFdrake incorrectly identifies my card as a Radeon frglx, on first boot I had no displays, I had to run Drakconf from the cmdline. I do notice that on boot, if I press the verbose mode, I get a warning that "dkms ati(8.10.19) bad exit status -5", which I can't find anywhere in the logs. Also in looking at the Xorg logs, the glx library is not loading.

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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xorg and xfree86 stopped developing 3d acceleration for nvidia and ati cards since both companies now make their own linux drivers. you can get ati drivers from their site, http://www.ati.com, along with directions on how to install them.

 

I don't have any experience with ati cards or drivers, so perhaps someone else can give you better advice if you have further questions.

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I removed the dkms-ati module, and that got rid of the dkms arror message at boot "ati(8.10.19) bad exit status -5", however, I still don't have acceleration, I checked the X86logs and for some reason the glx extensions still refuse to load:

 

(II) Loading font FreeType

(II) LoadModule: "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (glx)

(WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a"

(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a

(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0

ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2

(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"

(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"

(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a

(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0

ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2

(II) Loading extension GLX

(II) LoadModule: "dri"

(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a

(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0

ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2

(II) Loading sub module "drm"

(II) LoadModule: "drm"

(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a

(II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0

ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2

(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI

(II) LoadModule: "glx"

(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a

(II) UnloadModule: "glx"

(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (once-only module, 136033795)

(II) LoadModule: "ati"

(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o

(II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 6.5.6

Module class: X.Org Video Driver

ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7

 

If anyone has any ideas on why the glx library extensions are not loading please give some help...

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Well, I have tried many things. there are many ATI kerner modules for dkms with 2005 LE; I used the default one, the 1GB one (since my system has 1GB of RAM), and all I can seem to do is change the bad exit status of the ati module from dkms, from "-5" to "-3" or to "-8". I intalled the gatos driver (ati2.o) and had to to a re-install, since I could no longer get X to work do to version conflicts with dri.so, so with the clean install I chose to use the Xorg driver for radeon, but still no 3D. Granted glxgears is a bit faster, but not much. If I add "load module dri" to xorg.conf the video card slows down again.

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