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PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:35 pm    Post subject: SOLUTION for ATI Xpress 200M 3D (at least, for my hp note) Reply with quote

When I bought my hp pavilion zv6131 with ATI Xpress card, the DRI could not be activated, it causes the note to crash when X comes up or no 3D accel if I disable it.

I Found somewhere a nice tip from someone who only got 3D accel when he used to set up in the bios the UMA memory for the video card.
Ok, this solved the problem, but you can also use SidePort. In my case, there's a sideport memory of 128M, and a maximum of 128M shared memory you can use.
Setting my note to use both at 128M in the bios, gave me 256M of video RAM and I could use DRI without any problem.
My glxgears gives me 1800 fps, and I can play all the games, including unreal, torcs, bzflag and others.

So, my tip is:
- Set your bios to use BOTH UMA+SidePort memory to 128M ( value <128M in UMA makes Xorg to crash)
- Configure your xorg.conf like normal, using DRI.

Here's my xorg.conf important parts:

Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
Load "extmod"
Load "/usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.a"
#Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
#Load "GLcore"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
HorizSync 31.5 - 64.3
VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0
Modeline "1280x800_60.00" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -HSync +Vsync

EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "DesktopSetup" "(null)"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "on"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "off"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
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