Bug#493517: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: no GL acceleration with X1900

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.9.0-1+lenny1
> Severity: normal
>
> I have no accelerated GL on a Radeon X1900 card.  glxinfo says
>
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
> drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
> unknown chip id 0x7249, can't guess.
> libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
> libGL error: InitDriver failed
> libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
>
> Looking through the server logs below, it seems like everything is
> going fine until it tries to initialize AIGLX, and then this happens:
> (EE) AIGLX error: Calling driver entry point failed
> (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
>   

Don't you need a very recent mesa for 3d on r500? You might want to try
libgl1-mesa-dri from experimental for direct rendering. And add
xserver-xorg-core from experimental if you want compiz or so.

Brice