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Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject:

Umm...use an ebuild

If a 3.12.0 ebuild isn't in portage yet, then you can probably get away with doing this (enable your portage overlay in /etc/make.conf if you haven't already):

mortiis · n00b Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 54

Thanks!
I did not know that!

Can you explain me for learning porpuse what ive done exactly?

Thank you!

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject:

The portage overlay directory (/usr/local/portage by default) is a place you can put your own custom ebuilds so that they don't get deleted when you run "emerge sync".

mortiis · n00b Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 54

Thank you for this little portage-tutorial!
Looks like there`s much more to learn

SnEptUne · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 656

Could someone tell me why is software rendering faster than hardware rendering on my machine? I mean when I use ePSXe's Open SoftX as the video plugin, the fps is much better. But when I use the MesaGL video plugin, it because terribly slow when there are transparency and overlay. But if there are no transparency and overlay, it would be faster than SoftX. So I concluded that there are problem with my direct rendering. Is there something wrong with my driver? Please refer to my previous post for my glxinfo.

robmiller · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 4

I'm having some problems

I've been following this guide, but still can't get 3D support working.

I've got a Radeon 9800 Pro. agpgart is compiled into the kernel. Here's my xorg.conf, which is fresh out of fglrxconfig.

I'm using ati-drivers version 3.12.0, Xorg version 6.7.0-r2.

Here's the output of glxinfo:

Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal

bash-2.05b# emerge ati-drivers
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/ati-drivers-3.12.0 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-)

fglrx-4.3.0-3.12.0.i386.rpm
* you are using a xorg-x11 version too new !!!
* You must downgrade to xorg-x11-6.7.0 otherwise
* trying to use opengl will crash X

!!! ERROR: media-video/ati-drivers-3.12.0 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 44, Exitcode 0
!!! Better safe than sorry.

lol lol lol

Anyone knows when new ati drivers with xorg 6.8 support will became avaible
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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:46 am Post subject:

Mythos: I'm hoping the next driver version will have the necessary support, but I wouldn't bet on that.

robmiller: Can you post your log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log), and check the output of the "dmesg" command for any errors (particularly any prefixed by "agpgart" or "fglrx

SnEptUne: I've no idea what's going on with your framerates. I've never used the radeon driver myself, so I don't have much else to suggest. Are there any errors in your logs or dmesg that may be relevant? Have you tried different versions of the DRM code?
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dynam1cz · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 19

I finnally got my radeon 9200 to work under linux, however everytime I run glxgears there seems to be a sorta "choppyness" going on on the right side of the screen. It is like a few dark lines going crazy on the right side, very weird. However, if I reduce the glxgears to the smallest window possible, I see no problem. Any ideas?

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criis · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject:

Hi. I have an X800 but I can't modprobe the module

Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal

You don't need to modprobe that is a internal conf of ati in xorg.conf

you only need to call fglrx driver in you xorg.con or XF86config
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immist · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I will admit I have not read through all 75 pages, i did not see anything that helped so far even though i tried alot of suggestions, but I have read most of the postings, but here is my problem if anyone can help...

I have recently done a fresh install of gentoo, I have X up and running, in single head mode everything works flawless (i do get better performance out of the 3.11 drivers so that is what i stuck with), when i configure my display to do bigdesktop and run any opengl app (glxgears, tuxracer, quake3.... i get no display what so ever unless i run it windows and drag the window to the full width and then I will see the right side of the app all the way to left of window, almost like it doesn't know how to draw or resize to the window currently there.

other things i tried for the giggles of it, clone mode i get opengl with no problems, dual head mode it works flawless with a small loss of performance. So I know opengl is running and not too shabby. I would stay using the dual head mode other than i cant drag one window between the 2 desktops (which makes little fun when doing development).

I am open to any suggestions and will provide any information that anyone wants to know, and yes I have a copy of all my working configs for each mode.

-Immist

criis · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject:

Ouphe · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 20

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject:

criis · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:59 am Post subject:

criis · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject:

After I got a 2.6-kernel up and running the module installed flawlessly so now I have 3D. Actually I had feared that the 3D would be much worse on my Radeon, but I get around 90 FPS in ut2004-demo and maybe 50 when theres a lot of action. Not really what the card should be able to do but better than I expected.

Never mind: this reply is just to say thank you to all you guys in here who've helped me; especially you Wedge_ with all you competent replies in this long thread and you lovely guide.

edit: s/Wedge/Wedge_/;

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject:

giannifive · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Chicago, IL

Hi all. I'm at wit's end with this ati-drivers problem and could use some help. I get a signal 11 without much other instructive information from xorg-x11 (this is just the end of my Xorg.0.log file):

Leethal · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

jfbilodeau · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject: fglrx working, but no 3D...

I've finally got fglrx working on my system, but it refuses to run with 'glx' turned on. The screen flashes 4 times, until I get to the textmode x.org failure screen.

The output of Xorg.0.log mentions no error until the very end.

Here's the full log, with glx turned on:

Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal

Hi there are you loading in Kernel character devices your main boarder chipset ?

in my case i have to use via-agp.

If you are Ati user you can forget Ati-drivers for Radeon bus, intall Xorg-x11 6.7.0-r1 or r2.

Version 6.7.99 and 6.8 seems be incompatible with ati drivers.
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Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject:

jfbilodeau: it looks like you have the same problem as giannifive. As I said above: