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#1 2006-07-31 16:33:42

efossvold
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From: Kamloops, Canada
Registered: 2006-07-23
Posts: 59

ATI direct rendering not working

I cannot get direct rendering to work on my ATI mobility 9700 card.

I'm using the ati-fglrx 8.26.18-1 and ati-fglrx-utils 8.26.18-3, as well as kernel 2.6.17-ARCH1.

Here's some debugging output:

$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo

name of display: :0.0
libGL error: XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false
libGL error: XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: No

$ dmesg | grep fglrx

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 928 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.27.10 [Jul 27 2006] on minor 0
[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 3171 using kernel context 0

$ grep "(WW)|(EE)" Xorg.0.log

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) Option "XkbLayout" requires an string value
(WW) Option "XkbVariant" requires an string value
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/large" does not exist.
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Specified desktop setup not supported: 8
(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
(EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work
(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): ********************************************* *

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#2 2006-07-31 16:48:17

djpharoah
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From: SoCal
Registered: 2006-06-18
Posts: 185

Re: ATI direct rendering not working

Are you loading "fglrx" as a module when you load?

Check in your "MODULES=" in /etc/rc.conf


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#3 2006-07-31 17:23:18

Cerebral
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From: Waterloo, ON, CA
Registered: 2005-04-08
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Re: ATI direct rendering not working

From your output:

[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.27.10 [Jul 27 2006] on minor 0

You are not using ati-fglrx 8.26.18 - you have the newest version 8.27.10 installed.  Did you try to use the graphical installer?

Anyway, quit out of X, rmmod fglrx, then pacman -S ati-fglrx to get the old version back.

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#4 2006-07-31 21:12:51

efossvold
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From: Kamloops, Canada
Registered: 2006-07-23
Posts: 59

Re: ATI direct rendering not working

Oops, yeah, I tried them, but then reinstalled the ones from the arch repo, but I didn't overwrite ATI's I guess..

Anyway, I ran ATI's uninstall script which took care of the problem, then once again reinstalled ati-fglrx, and voila, worked! I'm now enjoying great performance and OpenGL graphics wink

Thank you!!

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