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froksen

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 5

Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

Hey everybody

I have a problem with getting direct rendering to work with X. I have installed the Closed ATi driver by following the Howto on this page. I have therefore also added fglrx to modules in rc.conf. I have runned aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf. All this with no problem. I have tried to type LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose in konsole, but again without any luck

But, when I type glxinfo in konsole, i get the following error message for Direct rendering.

direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

I have tried to search around on the internet, and asked in a Danish Linux-forum but with no success. But I was told that these files might come in handy.

My Xorg: http://pastebin.com/m21817ca
rc.conf: http://pastebin.com/d3439c886
lsmod: http://pastebin.com/m4ad82e12
xorg log: http://pastebin.com/m2c8375e4

Hope, that this might help... I have tried a sum of different things, but with out any luck. Direct rendering, is one of the last things I miss before I have a complete Archlinux installation..

Last edited by froksen (2008-02-03 15:38:09)

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

Hi froksen,
add these lines at the end of xorg.conf:

Section "DRI"
    Group 0
    Mode 0666
EndSection

froksen

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 5

Re: Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

Hi Luca

I have tried what you have written and then killed X (and also tried rebooting), but still with no success....  I find it very odd, but I was wondering if I should add somekind of permission to some file so my "normal" user may RW some file or folder..? Or anything like this?

I'm truely lost :-S

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

From your Xorg.0.log:

(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] Failed to remmap MC AGP aperture base!
[...]
(EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize CMMQS driver.
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x2000 at 0xb7688000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.
(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): ********************************************* *

I did a quick search of that first error, and came up with a phoronix thread - http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7044

Try changing your AGP aperture size in bios.

froksen

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 5

Re: Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

Hey Cerebral

Ehm, I don't really understand what it is I have to do... But since I also have openSUSE 10.3 on my machine and direct rendering works here, I can't understand why it should be a Bios problem?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

I'm not sure why it'd be a bios problem either - I just googled the error message and posted a possible solution I found.  Are you using the same catalyst driver version on SUSE?

What you'd have to do is go into your BIOS (probably by hitting DEL at bootup) and find a setting called "AGP aperture size" and try changing that.

Having said that, I've found quite a few reports of this error happening with catalyst 8.1 drivers and no confirmed solutions yet

froksen

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 5

Re: Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

On openSUSE I use their own rpm-package with the ATi driver 8.4.. I have being googling too, and I didn't find anything either.. But I can try the that bios stuff...

Thank you both for your help so far...

Last edited by froksen (2008-02-06 18:06:25)

froksen

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 5

Re: Direct rendering with ATi closed driver...

Hey there again...

I have been trying a lot of different things now with the closed ATi driver.. So I decided to tryout the open one (not vesa). Hehe, with the open one, I can get direct rendering to work. Well, I have gotten another issue. First let me explain about my setup

I have my lappy, which uses Screen resolution "1280x800", then I have an external screen plugged in the screenplug with the res "1280x1024" (hope you understand).

So, my problem is that when I use the open driver, it somehow forces my screenres to be "1280x800" eventhough that I want it to be "1280x1024". So when I bootup KDE, I net a rather strange Desktop. The background wallpaper looks fine and runs like it should in "1280x1024", but the K-Menu, is placed as it is with "1280x800". Well, maybe a screenshot could explain this better than I:
http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … ot3gd8.png

As you can see, KDE thinks that the res is "1280x800" too.? How do I fix this? Any ideas?

My xorg looks like this now: http://pastebin.com/m227e3230