Initial help with video driver configuration

GENXLR · 2016-08-25 04:38:23

Hello, I plan on posting mutiple threads to seperate my mutiple questions regarding my Arch Setup. I have installed archlinux on my IBM T42 2373-8ZU, and need some extra help from the community

I'm using the xfce4 interface(first time) and also the xf86-video-ati for my video driver

Currently it has extremely poor gpu performance granted it could just be this GPU is really that bad, but it feels like hardware acceleration is off. is there a proper way to configure the driver for my card(Radeon Mobility 9600 64MB)

I have other questions but I should probably put them in proper subsections?

Greetings

Awebb · 2016-08-25 07:13:42

The GPU is not bad, it's just ancient and has earned its place among our respected elder. Read this one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI, it will tell you to find the right driver here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#ATI. This means you have picked the correct driver. Follow the article and the relevant links in the article. Your question is a bit too general for us to start throwing around assumptions, so return with more specific questions, if the article fails for you.

And you are right: We have this one question per thread policy to reduce clutter and make the board as readable as it is writable.

Have a nice one!

V1del · 2016-08-25 08:08:25

You're correct in that you should open seperate threads for seperate issues. Regarding this first issue, have you made sure to install the corresponding mesa packages? i.e. mesa-libgl ? What's the output of

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

GENXLR · 2016-08-26 02:54:27

V1del wrote:

You're correct in that you should open seperate threads for seperate issues. Regarding this first issue, have you made sure to install the corresponding mesa packages? i.e. mesa-libgl ? What's the output of
glxinfo | grep OpenGL

Yeah, the output of that is command not found(i must be missing a module)

I didn't install ALL of the mesa packages, i think, I know I installed a few. I'll take a look at the pages, Thanks and I figured it's a one question per thread, otherwise it would be a MESS

EDIT: All mesa modules installed, they already were

this is my lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV350/M10 / RV360/M11 [Mobility Radeon 9600 (PRO) / 9700] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: IBM Device 0550
    Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
    Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
    I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
    Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: radeon
    Kernel modules: radeon

EDIT2: Built glxinfo, output below

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV350
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 12.0.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 12.0.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

Last edited by GENXLR (2016-08-26 03:20:24)

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Initial help with video driver configuration

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