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Is it possible to get direct rendering on the free (xf86-video-ati) drivers or do I need to install the fglrx drivers?
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Section "Device"
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Driver "radeon"
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EndSection[todi@clue ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5a
direct rendering: Yesso... yes, it can be. But it probably depends on which ati card you have and how new it is. Newer cards (anything newer than x850 i think) aren't really supported by the ati driver in xorg.
Last edited by gothmog.todi (2008-01-08 20:19:36)
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Section "Device" ... Driver "radeon" ... EndSection[todi@clue ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5a direct rendering: Yesso... yes, it can be. But it probably depends on which ati card you have and how new it is. Newer cards (anything newer than x850 i think) aren't really supported by the ati driver in xorg.
Its an xpress 1100 (modified 200m)
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According to http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon you card should be supported.
Try it out using this wikiguide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI
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I made a mistake, the xpress 1100 is based the x300 not the 200...Guess its fglrx drivers after all
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actually the x300 is also listed on the freedesktop wiki. You could try using the opensource driver - if it doesn't work, go with catalyst/fglrx.
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actually the x300 is also listed on the freedesktop wiki. You could try using the opensource driver - if it doesn't work, go with catalyst/fglrx.
Well I just fiddled with it for a second to see if I could get any results (did what the wiki said) didn't have much luck...well I guess I did I didn't break X
Installed the fglrx drivers they seem ok, I've had problems with little squares in the bottom right of my screen in the past though
# lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] [1002:5975]
I think theres the problem RS485 isn't listed on the freedesktop though its base card of x300 is....oh well I guess the fglrx drivers will work
Last edited by Elvish Legion (2008-01-08 21:49:31)
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I have the same chipset and can tell you that the OSS drivers work MUCH better than fglrx except for 3d. I read that DRI on Xpress200 series would be experimental but i neither remember where nor in which version. Anyway, i try it every now and then but i didn't get any results yet. So if you need 3d you should stick with the catalyst drivers. But don't expect too much of this drivers (no suspend anymore etc).
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