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ckdur

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Registered: 2014-12-26

Posts: 2

Bad graphics at Xorg

Hello everybody! I hope you can solve my problem please

I've recently installed Archlinux and performed pacman -Syu without any problem.

I want to run games (thru OpenGL, native-linux) and make it autobooteable and autolodeable. So I installed xorg-server and some xorg-utils for running startx and, for testing purposes, I run xterm in .xinitrc script.

When I run a game, or some mesa-demos (like teapot or fbotexture), I notice that textures are not loading properly (some transparent glitches). glxgears runs well and glxinfo | grep OpenGL or grep rendering are just well.

So, what is happening? Same thing doesn't happen with Lubuntu (xorg-server only)

I've installed all drivers for video-card (fx86-video-*) but, If you want to know, I'm trying to run on a ATI RV710 (HD 4200 series) video card.

Thanks in advice.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Bad graphics at Xorg

I've installed all drivers for video-card (fx86-video-*)

You should have installed only the drivers for your card, remove all the other ones.
You can try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst for better 3d performance.

ckdur

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Registered: 2014-12-26

Posts: 2

Re: Bad graphics at Xorg

Hello! Karol, thanks for your response.

Certain person already told me that it can be a problem with the Open Source driver, because the S3TC texture compresion. Is kinda extrange, because in ubuntu this didn't happen (this is... installing all Open Source drivers, Kernel 3.13 - ubuntu).

In a previous kernel (3.10 - ArchLinux) the open source driver works perfectly. So what can be wrong? Is a problem because the kernel version? There is no another way to solve it? The reason because I'm trying to do it with opensource drivers is because I want a game run like a live cd.