Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-03-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:30:48 -0600 Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > My real issue is that fglrx worked under Suse 9.2, > and not under Gentoo. But, no, I am NOT going back. Try > installing xfishtank under

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-03-01 Thread Bruce Burden
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BoardName "RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600]" > > > > The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this > > chip. > > But they a

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
While the two kernels are the same version from portage they have of course different EXTRAVERSION. For the kernel I compiled for dri I simply added '-dri' to EXTRAVERSION. So when running uname -r it yielded 2.6.15-r1-dri. The previous kernel which I am running now lacks the '-dri'. On Tuesday

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 21:31, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Are you certain that the radeon module being used is the one > > from that old kernel and not the one from x11-drm? > > I am very certain... but then again, I've been so before in this > thread and yet been terribl

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 21:31, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > The previous kernel had dri compiled as > > modules and I have never had direct rendering working with it... > > until now.. > > > > I am very surprised by this but it turns out direct rendering is > > working now

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BoardName "RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600]" > > The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this > chip. But they are working on it. If someone wishes to try it out, upgrade to modular Xorg (7.0),

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > The previous kernel had dri compiled as > modules and I have never had direct rendering working with it... > until now.. > > I am very surprised by this but it turns out direct rendering is > working now with the kernel modules. Are you certain that the radeon module being use

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:13, Bo Andresen wrote: > I am very surprised by this but it turns out direct rendering is working > now with the kernel modules. And the performance is quite a bit better than > before: [SNIP] Well, when I conducted the tests that yielded a performance of 228 FPS wit

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 18:50, Bo Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing > > now, with and without radeon. :) > > Actually the results using dri is worse than the results without dr

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am >still doing something wrong: > > BoardName "RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600]" The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this chip. You can ver

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 26 February 2006 05:02, Bruce Burden wrote: >Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am >still doing something wrong: First of all did you follow the guide at http://www.gentoolinux.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml ? Or any other guide? Assuming you used the guided

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Burden
Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: name of display: tigerprowl:0.0 Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". display: tigerprowl:0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version strin

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing > now, with and without radeon. :) Actually the results using dri is worse than the results without dri in terms of frame rates. Without dri I get something like 250

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:03, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? > > Good question. I don't know. What I do is simply move the driver > in /usr/lib/modules/dri/ out of the way, or renaming it temporarily > (to

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bruce Burden wrote: > # lsmod > Module Size Used by > radeon 98464 0 > drm61592 1 radeon > agpgart27216 1 drm There should also be an agp module specific for your chipset. > [fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Unable to the

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? Good question. I don't know. What I do is simply move the driver in /usr/lib/modules/dri/ out of the way, or renaming it temporarily (to say NOTradeon_dri.so). Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Burden
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bruce Burden wrote: > > > Is it in the portage system? I did a "sync" a few weeks > >ago, and I still get the 20050502 version, > > Do an 'eix x11-drm' and see it lists a 20051223 version, keyword > masked. (If you don'

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing > now, with and without radeon. :) Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > I was very sure that I had tested this twice with > VIDEO_CARDS="ati". Both times the ati flag didn't get enabled That's why I said to take extra care to avoid typos. :) > i.e. emerge -vp x11-drm showed: > > [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20051223 VIDEO_CARDS="-ati > -i81

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 20:14, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > > Maybe try again, taking extra > > > care to avoid typos in VIDEO_CARDS="ati"? > > > > I did do that. And as stated before it won't compile without the

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Maybe try again, taking extra > > care to avoid typos in VIDEO_CARDS="ati"? > > I did do that. And as stated before it won't compile without the > VIDEO_CARDS variable in it's environment. Tried several times > with

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > Do you think this is a bug in the ebuild? > > No. But maybe it is a bug in the newer version of portage that you > use, because here the VIDEO_CARDS="via" gets autoconverted to the > video_cards_via USE flag. Mayb

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 23:30, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Aah! But that module is provided by x11-base/x11-drm. Maybe > > you need to add the video_cards_ati USE flag? > > That's it! :D :) Congrats. > I did try with both VIDEO_CARDS="ati" and VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" in

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 February 2006 23:30, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > I don't have a kernel module called radeon. I guess that's the > > problem.. > > Aah! But that module is provided by x11-base/x11-drm. Maybe you > need to add the video_cards_ati USE flag? That's it! :D ~$ glx

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > I don't have a kernel module called radeon. I guess that's the > problem.. Aah! But that module is provided by x11-base/x11-drm. Maybe you need to add the video_cards_ati USE flag? > You are suggesting I move to version udev-084? Only when you have the radeon module and i

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:19, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > Well, I did try both x86 (20050502) and ~x86 (20051223). > > [...] > > Anyway neither gave me working hardware acceleration. :( > > Still the same error (drmOpenDevice: Open failed)? Yes. No change. > Earlier yo

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > Well, I did try both x86 (20050502) and ~x86 (20051223). > [...] > Anyway neither gave me working hardware acceleration. :( Still the same error (drmOpenDevice: Open failed)? Earlier you wrote: > ~# cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 > ... > intel-agp > ... > drm Add ra

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-22 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 18 February 2006 17:02, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Do an 'eix x11-drm' and see it lists a 20051223 version, keyword > masked. (If you don't have eix, first run 'emerge eix' and > 'update-eix'.) So do > > echo "x11-base/x11-drm ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords > > and 'emerge x1

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-22 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 17 February 2006 12:20, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > havn't tried it since i have a newer unspoorted ship (X300SE) > but try this guide here > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers I'll try that howto when I get some time... Thanks. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 17 February 2006 06:03, Bo Andresen wrote: > I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to > get 3d rendering working with the free dri drivers so I followed this > howto: http://www.gentoolinux.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml > I got my 9100 IGP to do 3d via the h

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I've read in > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers > > there's no way to make it work for a Radeon above > 9100. Oh !! mine is > Mobility Radeon 9700, if I want DRI through open > source drivers, I've no way > t

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-18 19:03:21 +0100 (Sat, Feb), Rafael Fernández López wrote: > As I've read in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers > there's no way to make it work for a Radeon above 9100. Oh !! mine is > Mobility Radeon 9700, if I want DRI through open source drivers, I've no

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Fernández López
As I've read in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers there's no way to make it work for a Radeon above 9100. Oh !! mine is Mobility Radeon 9700, if I want DRI through open source drivers, I've no way to do it? Bye, Rafael Fernández López. pgp9zokH8act6.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bruce Burden wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Bo Andresen wrote: > > > [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB > > > > There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried > > that? > > Is it in the portage system? I did a "sync" a

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Bruce Burden
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB > > There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried that? > Is it in the portage system? I did a "sync" a few weeks ago, and I still get

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: > [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried that? As DRM can change from kernel release to kernel release, you need the version that fits your kernel. To use that newer DRM version, it may be that you need to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ~# lsmod | grep 'drm\|agp' > drm65944 0 > intel_agp 20508 1 > agpgart29256 2 drm,intel_agp There should also be a drm_radeon there (not sure how it's called because I use it builtin the kernel) ___

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Ghaith Hachem
havn't tried it since i have a newer unspoorted ship (X300SE) but try this guide here http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers On 2/17/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to get > 3d rendering wor