Video

[Guest smokestack]

Im a little lost here and a newbie to linux. I have mandriva..the newest one i have been using it for about 6 months. My thing is i have one of those cheap motherboards that have the embeded video cards. The video card is a ProSavage8 3D.. I cant get open gl stuff to work. Like the screen savers and so on. When they come on they are really really slow. Its the same with any 3d application that i try to open.

 

The mother board is a M824 v7.2. With the amd 3100 chip. Do i just need to find the drivers? And how do i install those?

Thanks in advance

[scarecrow]

Can you copypaste your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please?

And by the way, is mesa3d ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d ) installed? (else you shouldn't expect any serious 3D/openGL acceleration with that card).

Edited April 1, 2006 by scarecrow

[Guest smokestack]

No i dont have mesa3d. How do i install that?

 

 

 

 

 

# File generated by XFdrake.

 

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "keyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"

Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Generic"

ModelName "1024x768 @ 70 Hz"

HorizSync 31.5-57.0

VertRefresh 50-70

 

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "S3 Inc."

BoardName "S3 Savage4"

Driver "savage"

VideoRam 32768

Option "DPMS"

# Option "no_accel" # You may enable this if there are timeouts when starting X

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultColorDepth 24

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 8

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 15

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Screen "screen1"

EndSection

[ianw1974]

The easiest way is go into System/Configuration/Packaging/Install Software and then click the All option, and then search for mesa. Select the mesa option, and it will select the necessary libmesa as well.

[scarecrow]

What about "urpmi Mesa" ?

You can also "urpmi Mesa-demos" and get something to test your openGL performance, if GL screensavers and glxgears isn't enough for you.

Your xorg.conf looks OK to me.

By the way, does anyone know if savage cards support direct rendering? If they are, you could gain some performance by adding it to your configuration.

Edited April 1, 2006 by scarecrow