Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Felipe, Output of fglrxinfo: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT OpenGL version string: 2.1.7873 Release Daniel, Hmmm... that may be the problem... Output of dpkg -l '*libmesa*': un xlibmesa-dri

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:13:52 +0100 Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Output of dmesg | grep drm: [nothing] Is that bad? Maybe not for the closed source (ati's) driver, but for the open source driver if the drm kernel module is not loaded then DRI can't be done which means your

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Kelly. First I stuck with the fglrx driver and added the two options to the Device section of xorg.conf. Unfortunately this didn't seem to make any difference to the video playback; i.e.,

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Kelly. First I stuck with the fglrx driver and added the two options to the Device section of xorg.conf.

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Daniel, Here's the command: mozart:/home/ns# modprobe radeon WARNING: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Cannot allocate memory FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module,

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Thanks, Kelly. That sounds fairly definitive. I will take my problem to Phoronix unless Daniel or Felipe come up with a solution. Cheers, Nick Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Syrotiuk

xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Dear Debian users, I installed lenny on a new system last week. Without changing anything, the xserver started successfully. (Thanks!) But direct rendering was disabled. (No surprise there.) Regardless DVD/video playback was satisfactory using totem-xine. However it was desirable to try to

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:57, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 1. installed fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src 2. used module-assistant to build and install the fglrx module i think you should try the with latest drivers ati provide, downloading prom their site. i'm not aware about

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Thanks, Felipe. I have installed ATI Catalyst 8.8 from the AMD web site and tested it thoroughly but the problems I described earlier still remain. I wonder if it's a clocking/timing problem? But I honestly wouldn't know where to begin if that were the problem. Nick Felipe Gallois

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian users, I installed lenny on a new system last week. Without changing anything, the xserver started successfully. (Thanks!) But direct rendering was disabled. (No surprise there.) Regardless DVD/video

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Thanks for the suggestions, Kelly. First I stuck with the fglrx driver and added the two options to the Device section of xorg.conf. Unfortunately this didn't seem to make any difference to the video playback; i.e., it's still stuttering. Then I tried both the RadeonHD and the Radeon

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Felipe Gallois
what's $fglrxinfo returning? On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 18:34, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Kelly. First I stuck with the fglrx driver and added the two options to the Device section of xorg.conf. Unfortunately this didn't seem to make any difference

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:39:35 -0300 Felipe Gallois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux mozart 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 28 12:00:54 UTC 2008 i686 and I have included my xorg.conf and lspci info below. I'd be grateful for any help or suggestions. Do you have the necessary libmesa-* packages