Re: xorg, transparency and ati drivers

[Lorenzo Milesi <lorenzo.milesi@gmail.com>]

>  I'm trying them, but:
> - glxgears runs at half speed (~800fps windowed)
> - if I enable the Composite extension in xorg.conf, DRI will be
>  disabled:
> (II) fglrx(0): Composite extension enabled, disabling direct rendering
> (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): ********************************************* *

I had the same problem, because libglx was looking for fglrx_dri in
/usr/X11R6/lib64 while it was in /usr/X11R6/lib

Try running
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
and see what's going wrong.

I have an ATI Radeon 9700 on my laptop, runs 1300 windowed and 600 fullscreen.
Xfree and fglrx.

ciao
maxxer