Re: Squeeze.GNOME. Correct compiz configuration.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:38:05 +0000, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>>> Correct me, if I am wrong, but the question is how to enable hardware
>>> 3D support in 'radeon' video driver, which is in use by my Radeon
>>> Mobility 7500? Or, if it is impossible, how to change video driver,
>>> which will support hardware 3D and will works with compiz?
>>
>> 3D should be enabled by default when using radeon driver, I wouldn't
>> bother about that (you can check it with "glxinfo | grep -i render").
>
> It is not enabled by default, that a problem is.
>
> $ glxinfo | grep -i render
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
By reading this:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/glxinfo
It seems to enable software rendering, yes.
> It is because needed module for hardware acceleration does not loaded:
>
> [ 7.667868] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R100_cp.bin
> [ 7.691511] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R100_cp.bin"
> [ 7.691602] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failled initializing CP (-2).
> [ 7.691643] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
Oh, I see ;-(
Then you should first fix that "missing firmware" issue to get full 3D
hardware acceleration:
Installing proprietary firmware
http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
> From that strange fact we have this situation:
>
> $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so libGL:
> OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes
>
> As here we may see, it is software rasterisation enabled instead of
> hardware.
Yes.
>>> Please, help to bring compiz to live in Debian Squeeze.
>>
>> You have to follow the same steps. If "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" is not
>> there, just create it and add the required sections.
>
> Correct me, if I am wrong, but I think it is useless until hardware
> rendering will be available and turned on.
Yes, or at leas that was also my understanding.
Greetings
--
Camaleón
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