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chimeric

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 254

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ATI X1950 Pro - no direct rendering

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting direct rendering to work with my X1950 pro. I followed the ATI guide in the Wiki and decided to use the opensource xf86-video-radeonhd driver. Everything is working except direct rendering, there are no warnings/erros in my Xorg.log and the tip at the troube shooting section:

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo > /dev/null

outputs nothing. I'm a little bit lost now as to what else could cause this (fglrx is not installed/loaded etc.).

Has anyone of you a X1950 as well? If yes, could you maybe post your xorg.conf?

Thanks in advance

Execute_Method

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From: Tennessee

Registered: 2008-07-26

Posts: 105

Re: ATI X1950 Pro - no direct rendering

Your card is an r5xxx chipset, so for direct rendering using the open source driver, you need to have xorg 7.4 (x-server 1.5 & mesa 7.2) and all the deps that go with it. As well, the xf86-video-ati driver is still better than the radeonhd driver in terms of stability in 3d.

The packages that you need & are newer than core/extra are (all can be had from testing, except libgl):
mesa >= 7.1
xf86-input-evdev 2.0.4
xf86-video-ati >= 6.9.0
xorg-server >= 1.4.99.906
libgl >= 7.1  ** has to be built from a with ABS/pkgbuild, because you need to add r300 & radeon dri-drivers in the configure **

also, read up hear to gain some knowledge about the subject&and for further info/support.

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43

hope this helps you.

chimeric

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 254

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Re: ATI X1950 Pro - no direct rendering

Thanks Execute_Method for this thorrough answer and the information I'll give it a try.