Gul Dukat Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 Hi, I've installed the latest Cooker release, Odin, on my notebook which is equipped with a ATi Radeon X700 graphics card. I now Cooker is unstable and it's still in Beta. But that's why I installed it anyway. I would like to test it and report any bugs to Bugzila. Anyway, my problem is, that I can't seem to get to install the ATi-driver correctly. I wanted to try the latest release of their driver, which is ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run. I've installed the right kernel-source, as you can see here: totaal 5 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 aug 28 08:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 1024 aug 17 11:40 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 aug 28 08:58 ATI/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 aug 28 07:27 linux -> linux-2.6.17-2mdv/ drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 aug 28 07:27 linux-2.6.17-2mdv/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 aug 17 11:37 rpm/ I followed the installations instructions on the ATi's website. First I made the driver executable and after that I ran the installer as root. After the menu of the installer was closed, I type /usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig --initia as root. After that I rebooted, and I found out to my surprise, that I have no 3D-rendering, as you can see: [guldukat@localhost ~]$ fglrxinfo 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) Another strange thing is, that the command glxinfo | grep direct gives me the following message: bash: glxinfo: command not found Same thing with glxgears I think, Mandriva removed them from either the Cooker edition or completely. Anyway, no 3D-rendering. Just in case, here's my xorg.conf: # File generated by XFdrake (rev 55135) # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "SynapticsMouse1" "AlwaysCore" 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 "synaptics" 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" "us(alt-intl)" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "SynapticsMouse1" Driver "synaptics" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "SHMConfig" "on" EndSection Section "Monitor" # Monitor preferred modeline (60.6 Hz vsync, 64.5 kHz hsync, ratio 16/10) Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1280x1024" HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0 VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0 ModeLine "1680x1050" 121.0 1680 1704 1792 1876 1050 1051 1054 1065 -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 "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" Driver "fglrx" BoardName "VESA driver (generic)" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "fglrx" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection In case you might be wondering, I changed the line Driver "fglrx" to ati, but it made no difference. Any help is much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 I think it's using xorg 7 so everything is modular. You might need to go through the xorg packages, and see which one might have the opengl stuff in it. I found this with arch, and I did manage to get it installed from one of the packages, just can't remember which one. Could be xorg-opengl-utils or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted August 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 Hi Ian, thanks for your reply. But to be honest, I can't seem to find anything that slightly resembles xorg-opengl-utils But you mentioned Xorg 7.0. I thought about that too, and I can't seem to find an answer to my question as toi whether the latest ATi-driver supports Xorg 7.0. I also installed Odin on another configuration with an nVidia graphics-card and the nVidia-dirver installed and has 3D-rendering, without any hassle. Their latest driver has Xorg 7.0 support, so it wasn't a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 (edited) Hi Gul, I found out you have to disable Composite Extension for fglrx to get 3D accelleration. Unfortunately, without it some of the new, cool stuff like 3D desktop won't work. So I'd also advise to use ati xorg (deinstall fglrx, then "urpmi x11-driver-video-ati"). glxinfo is part of the "mesa-demos" package. Edited August 28, 2006 by scoonma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted August 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 Hi Gul, I found out you have to disable Composite Extension for fglrx to get 3D accelleration. Unfortunately, without it some of the new, cool stuff like 3D desktop won't work. So I'd also advise to use ati xorg (deinstall fglrx, then "urpmi x11-driver-video-ati"). glxinfo is part of the "mesa-demos" package. Thanks a lot, Scoonma. I've got 3D-rendering by disabling "Composite Extension". And I als found "glxgears" an s"glxinfo" within the "mesa-demos"-package. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 You're welcome! Did you try the new multimedia-kernel (2.6.7.11-mm) yet? It gave me a fine speed increase here. (The actual one is not modularized, so no need to change boot config.) :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted August 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 No didn't try that kernel. Still running 2.6.17-2mdv. What's the advantage over the one I'm running, besides the speed-increase? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 What's the advantage over the one I'm running, besides the speed-increase? Don't know, just choose it because of some serious system lockups (even Magic SysRq key seqences didn't work), likely being caused due to dealing with multimedia data. So I gave it a try and it seems more stable than 2.6.17-2. But as I couldn't reproduce the actual faulting condition yet, this is not sure. Version 2.6.7.11 is also marked as the latest stable release at kernel.org, so I'm tending to stick with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted August 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 Oke, thanks. Will give it a try, later this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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