On Tuesday 20 April 2004 17:12, Lanman wrote: > Hey Gang, I've been running into a wierd bug with XFree86, and I > was looking for some suggestions or ideas on what I can do about > it. > > First, I'm running Mandrake 10.0 CE on an Asus P4S800, with a P-4 > 2.80 E CPU ( 1 MB of onboard cache ), 512 MB's of DDR400 Ram, and > an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro AGP Video card with 64 MB's of ram. > > I have 2 different kernels (2.6.3 Stock kernel from 10.0 CE as > well as the 2.6.3-7 kernel) both of which run 100% perfect on > this system, and XFree86 4.3-30 handles the video. > > Here's the down-side. I can't run the Radeon in 3D Accelerated > mode. If I try to select the XFree86 with 3D Acceleration, the > system immediately freezes with a kernel lock. I can't open a new > terminal to run a shutdown or reboot, the system isn't available > across my network, and XFree86 never times out from the test > sequence. > > Am I missing something here? XFree86 states that it's using the > default "fglrx" radeon driver module that came with CE, and when > I run the GLX-Gears test, these are my results; > > 1789 frames in 5.0 seconds = 357.800 FPS > 2000 frames in 5.0 seconds = 400.000 FPS > 1840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 368.000 FPS > 1840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 368.000 FPS > 1840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 368.000 FPS > 1920 frames in 5.0 seconds = 384.000 FPS > 1840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 368.000 FPS > 1840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 368.000 FPS > > But it also states that I'm missing another component; > > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > > Is this included in 10.0 CE or do I need the retail version? > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, unless they have to > do with installing Windows! Grin! > > Lanman
Don't know if this helps, Lanman : http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=12&submit.y=6&submit=GO%21 Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 *
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