Re: ATI radeon 9200, 2.6 kernel, xfree 4.3 - but still bad performance (dri failing?)
Hi,
try http://kano.mipooh.net/ there is a script called
install-radeon-debian.sh, run it as root with X not running.
Peter Schoenfeld
Alan Chandler wrote:
> I an trying to get my radeon 9200 based graphics to perform properly with
> 3D. It worked with Gentoo, but now I've switched back to Debian, I can get
> it to work, and I can't find out whats wrong.
>
> I am using a standard "kernel-image-2.6.0-1-k7" debian package
>
> "xserver-xfree" and "xlibmesa-dri" are from experimental - giving the
> following version string in the log
>
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0-0pre1v5 20031207095205
> daniels@debian.org)
>
> glxinfo tells me that dri is not working - thus
>
> alan@kanger log $ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> ....
> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
> ...
>
>
> Looking at the XFree86.0.log
>
> The relevent bits are:-
> ...
> (--) Chipset ATI Radeon 9200 5961 (AGP) found
> ...
> (**) RADEON(0): Using AGP 4x mode
> (II) RADEON(0): AGP Fast Write disabled by default
> (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default
> ...
> II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe0ebf000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe0ebf000 to 0x48403000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xc0000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0ebf000 at
> 0x48403000 (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191)
> (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1024) to (1280,1026)
> (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7165
> (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> Screen to screen bit blits
> Solid filled rectangles
> 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
> Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
> Solid Lines
> Scanline Image Writes
> Offscreen Pixmaps
> Setting up tile and stipple cache:
> 32 128x128 slots
> 32 256x256 slots
> 16 512x512 slots
> (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
> (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
> (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
> (II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1026)
> (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7161
> (**) Option "dpms"
> (**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
> (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
> (==) RandR enabled
>
>
>
> which just seems to announce that agpgart and dri are not working - but
> without any clear idea why. Any help tracking this down would be
> appreciated.
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