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JMRamos

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2011-05-29

Posts: 6

No 3D acceleration with ASUS P5VD2-MX

Greetings for you all.

I'm using a Motherboard ASUS P5VD2-MX, witch contains a VIA P4M890, and with OpenChrome driver, I can't get 3D acceleration with it.

I have fallowed the instructions on

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12311

and the only way I can use the graphic environment is by adding:

Option "NoAccel" "true”  in the Section "Device" of my xorg.conf.

Before using OpenChrome I used UniChrome with no 3D effects as well. Due to this I'm using Gnome 3 and the Gnome shell is not running... I can only use the “Fallback Mode”.

The manufacturers say that 3D acceleration is possible with that hardware, however for me it's not working.

Can you please point me in the right direction.

Thank you all

lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

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Re: No 3D acceleration with ASUS P5VD2-MX

I assume you read this wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Via_Unichrome , especially the bit at the bottom??

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JMRamos

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2011-05-29

Posts: 6

Re: No 3D acceleration with ASUS P5VD2-MX

Yes, I read the all article. What “bit” are you referring to?
I realise now that direct rendering is disabled.
Can you please tell-me how do I enable it?
I will post some outputs I got:

root@Viper /]# dmesg | grep -e agp -e drm
[    0.650235] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    3.941861] agpgart: Detected VIA P4M890 chipset
[    3.948085] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
[   18.236323] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   18.245899] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[   18.245902] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[   18.245905] [drm] Initialized via 2.11.1 20070202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 

[root@Viper /]# grep openchrome /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    17.858] (II) LoadModule: "openchrome"
[    17.893] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so
[    17.929] (II) Module openchrome: vendor="http://openchrome.org/"
[    17.932] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so
[    17.932] (!!) For support, please refer to http://www.openchrome.org/.

[root@Viper /]# grep rendering /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    18.260] (II) CHROME(0): direct rendering disabled

Thank you.