On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:18 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > John Haywood wrote: [SNIP] > > It looks like it tries to use a driver called "fglrx" for 3D > > acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses > > "1:0:0" and "1:0:1" > > > > I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config file which I > > used for my previous video card, and after commenting out the > > ATI-generated stuff, inserting the Driver "fglrx" into the "Device" > > section and leaving the PCI, stuff out, instead using "AGPMode" "true", I > > get X to boot, but it seems woefully slow, (about 200 - 220 in glxgears).
> > I don't know what your card is but it sounds like newer than mine > (7200). There is documentation about that AGPMode option that says the > value should be 1, 2, or 4. Although I don't think it will make much > difference, you can see that here: > http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html You can also find some > driver enhancement and details at that site wrt your card in 4.3. What > I thought I noticed is that there is only, so far, 2d support for the > newest Radeon (9500?) http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 One > more option might be a 3rd party commercial driver: http://www.xig.com/ > > Rolf Further to this, (and thanks for putting me on the right track).... I changed the line in my XFree Device section to read: BusID "PCI:1:0:0" from 1:0:1, as put in by the ATI post-rpm script (their own xconfig basically). I'm guessing that the original refers to the digital output on my card, whereas I'm using the old SVGA one. The card supports a dual-head setup, so this may explain this. Looking at my old card's config, "AGPMode" is set to "true", rather than 1, 2 or 4 which I'm guessing refer to AGP modes. Anyway, the upshot is, I can startx, run glxgears at 2000fps, but after exiting from X-windows or switching to another VT, I get an unreadable set of snow columns- on which I can make out about 10 sets of prompts, and only rebooting restores the console. Any suggestions on this last annoyance? And ta for all your input so far ======================== >From Joan Tur: Joan said also: >> You haven't told us what Radeon you have, but the Ati's drivers are for >> 8500 >> to 9700 cards. The other Radeons are supported by DRI (afaik). No, the latest drivers include the whole schemozzle, right back to the original Radeon - it says so in the post install script of the rpm, and detects fine in the XFree log ======================== Just as soon as I get a fully working config, I'll post for others -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F
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