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champus

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Registered: 2007-12-19

Posts: 6

radeon driver: gl_vendor still mesa

Hey folks,

I'm using a X1600 ATI graphics card and the free radeon driver.
Direct rendering is enabled (direct rendering: Yes) but when looking at "glxgears -info" I get the following output:

GL_RENDERER = Software Rasterizer
GL_VERSION = 2.1 Mesa 7.2
GL_VENDOR = Mesa Project

This doesn't look good - I don't want to use mesa! Also the glxgears performance is worse, just got ~260fps.

This is my xorg.conf device part:

Section "Device"
Identifier "card"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "AccelDFS" "1"
EndSection

Can someone help me?

Edit:
After reinstalling some libs (a ext4 crash did delete some files) the GL_RENDERER is now Mesa DRI R300 and the Vendor is DRI R300 Project. Looks better, but: I just get 200 FPS in glxgears, other users get around 2500 with this graphics card!

Last edited by champus (2009-03-14 13:34:44)

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,563

Re: radeon driver: gl_vendor still mesa

Are you using xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd? The latter claims to support your card, and should be faster if anything. Also, post your X log.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-03-15 04:48:22)