Ati Radeon IGP and Xorg R6.8

Macguyvok · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:09 am Post subject: Ati Radeon IGP and Xorg R6.8

Well, It's official. Getting working 3D on the IGP chipset is now trivial...nay.. almost inescapable with the new Xorg R6.8 release. Here's the rundown of what I did to get DRI working:

1) emerged Xorg R6.8
2) configured my 2.6.7 kernel to include ATI chipset drivers for the DRI (I orrignally had ALI, which is my laptop's motherboard chipset, but the IGP has a ATI chipset...)
3) opengl-update xorg-x11

There you have it folks, working 3D on a IGP chipset in 3 easy steps. Took me 20 minutes (since I used a precompiled packed of Xorg R6.8 that I'd compiled on my desktop while I was in class)

Now, I must note: I've NEVER had 3D on this laptop before.. even after trying everything I could think of and follow walkthrough after walkthrough.... and finally it works. I love Xorg!!!

Yaaay!
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alexander-m · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 31

Hi everybody

I've got the same graphic card (Ati radeon IGP 320) and followed your steps.
I got the DRI working in a real easy way (compared to all patching and cvs one had to go thru before)

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BUT wait!!!
Would't Direct Rendering mean a performance improvement?

Ok we check this

before I had :
SOFTWARE Rendering (leeds to 99% CPU usage): 330 FPS (glxgears)

know width:
HARDWARE Rendering (or shall I call it "acceleration") : 200 FPS (glxgears)

This is even slower as width SW-Rendering . What has gone wrong ? :roll:

How is your performace Macguyvok ?

PS: what I also find not logical is that glxgears with HW-rendering (DRI)
always results in 1000 FPS in 5 secs = 200.000 FPS
all the time (there is no 200.001 or 199.999). Could there possible be a reason for that? And would the actual performace be higher?

Well would be gratefull if someone with a similar graphic card could post its glxgears FPS!!

BTW : If someone with a IGP 320 Radeon Ati Card reads this:
I would really like to see your xorg.conf file maybe I made some performance costing mistakes here (or the card is just crap :roll:

)

Aleaxnder

ilikeyoureyes · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 52

I unmerged xfree, emerged xorg 6.8, and ran the opengl update. When I run glxgears all I get is a segmentation fault. Here is the relevant part when I run lsmod if that is of any help

silentdav · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 56

alexander-m · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 31

Hmm well then it is conformed , my graphic card is a crapy ati (probably she could do better when there where some ati support here :-(

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Hmm your framerates are even a bit lower then mine and what I realy wonder is why my framerate (with DRI) seems to be very constant

gen-kris · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 29 Location: NRW Germany

ok, i have the same problem, but not only on my laptop with a radeon 9000 m on a xorg also with a geforce2mx200 whith xfree...
whith the radeon i get around 100fps, whenn i start knoppix from cd i get around 2000fps so the card is fine

so i think there must be something terrible wrong in some configurationfiles.

I hope i can help whith that

kris

silentdav · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 56

Yes I would like to see your conf
and you're right , strange constant glxgears

gen-kris · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 29 Location: NRW Germany

blixtra · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Berlin

QuaffAPint · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:44 am Post subject:

Not trying to thread steal - but how did you get your ATI drivers to install with xorg 6.8 ? Everytime I try to emerge 'ati-drivers', I get an error saying that they are not compatible with xorg 6.8.

What am I missing?

ilikeyoureyes · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 52

truekaiser · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 801

just a quick question to other radeon owners here that use the dri drivers. do you guys experence slowdown's in your card the longer your machine is on?

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

well i have the same problem if you comment #dri xorg became very stable

but i need 3d acc

when i uncooment dri, it's a mess!

There are new drivers at ati homepage, any one solved xorg / ati problem ?

xorg >=6.7.99 are the reaseon of the problems versions above i don't have any problem
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incabolocabus · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:05 am Post subject:

On hp ze5300 - full success

Henry78 · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:06 am Post subject:

refering to the x.org release notes, the radeon drivers only word for 2d, that means no 3d acceleration is available.

on the other hand, there are the drivers from ati (found as 'ati-drivers' in portage), wich are not working with x.org 8.6

so you can stick to the 3d acc, and use an older x-version, or you get the new 8.6 without the 3d acc. then you have to change your driver to 'radeon' (from 'fglrx')