Re: ATI RADEON questions
--- "J.F.Gratton" <grajea01@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> After much questioning, I've finally bought an ATI Radeon 9200 for my
> Debian system.
>
> I still have some minor issues with it, here they are, hoping that
> someone will be able to help out...
>
> - CPU runs at a higher load when idle: according to the cpu load of
> gkrellm, the cpu is 15-20% busy when idle with the ATI card, compared to
> 4-5% with any other card I've tested. The same services run on both case
> so it's not a question of having added functionalities to the system
> between the card swap. Top gives similar readings.
>
> - I get these warnings in /var/log/XFree86.0.log :
>
> (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
> (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
> (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
> (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
>
> --> I thought 3D acceleration was enabled by default ? What am I
> forgetting ?
To get dri support try this post on linuxQuestions.org (and forget about the patch thing he
mentions, no need for it with the new drivers)
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/201996
It was very helpful for me (radeon 9600 tho). Also: try "debian ati how-to" on google. Tons of
pages!
HTH,
ib
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