dri problems

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

I dont have any clue what I am supposed to do, I have looked through about 20 forums, and none of them had the same problem I have. I have an old laptop, and I am trying to get direct rendering working. At this point I dont even know where to start, so I'll just post my current xorg.conf, and lspci, if someone could help, that would be GREAT.

xorg.conf

sugar · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:44 am Post subject:

You'll find the ati faq of good use

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers

Feel free to post back if you have any problems

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

no soup.... It didnt work, with fglrx in xorg.conf, it says "(EE) No device found." and with radeon in xorg.conf xorg starts, and says that it is using mesa, and my fps is smaller than it was before, it used to be like 400... after that it's like 180..

EDIT: Oh, my bad, didnt realize that the thing got rid of my options, got it back up to 400 with radeon driver, but still no dri... stupid me...

sugar · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

when you modprobe the module, does everything go ok?

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

it says this when I modprobe, but everything else looks good:

sugar · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject:

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_ATI=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y

but i had it as module... if that makes any difference

EDIT: ok i thought i had it built as module... apparently not...

ank · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject:

You need agpgart and agp for chipset on your MB. Something like this:

agpgart
nvidia-agp
fglrx

In your case it is intel not nvidia:

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

ok... i rebuilt with:

CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_AGP_ATI=m
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m

and btw /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6(which hasnt changed yet, exept for the addition of agpgart at the begining after rebuilding):

agpgart
intel-agp
fglrx

still a no-go

ank · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject:

After compiling kernel you shuld rebuild fglrx drivers. Boot system and pres I for interactive then skip xdm, rebuild ati-drivers, load fglrx module and switch to ati with: eselect opengl set ati

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

ok... i rebuilt it... but guess what.... same problem... i think we strayed from the actual problem, because after rebuilding kernel fglrx doesnt come up with the error, however again the problem doesnt seem to be the module, because when it was the module it gave me an "(EE) Error loading module "fglrx"" now it just gives me the "(EE) No device found"

ank · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject:

First you should check with lsmod if all 3 modules are loaded then coment some lines in xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
#Option "DDCMode" "on"
#Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
#Option "pci retry"
#Option "AGPMode" "4"
#Option "AGPFastWrite" "on"
#Option "BIOSHotKeys" "on"
EndSection

so just the basic is in. When this works you can always tweak more. Propably not the reason but do you really have two Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on" lines in xorg.conf? And if you use fglrx change Driver "radeon" to Driver "fglrx" You can only use one of this two. If you use

radeon
you must have: agpgart, intel-agp, dri, radeon in modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 and Driver "radeon" in xorg.conf

if you use fglrx
you must have: agpgart, intel-agp, fglrx in modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 and Driver "fglrx" in xorg.conf

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

yes all three are :

sugar · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:29 am Post subject:

you might want to try commenting out the extensions in xorg when you try with the radeon driver

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

what extensions?

sugar · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

:!:

sorry. My bad. There re none.

Have you tried unmasking the latest drivers?

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

installed latest ati-drivers, and rebooted

glxinfo:

direct rendering: No

fglrxinfo:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20060327 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.3 Mesa 6.5.1)

glxgears:

2094 frames in 5.1 seconds = 410.056 FPS
2040 frames in 5.1 seconds = 397.491 FPS
2040 frames in 5.1 seconds = 398.283 FPS
2040 frames in 5.1 seconds = 397.943 FPS
2040 frames in 5.1 seconds = 398.069 FPS
1952 frames in 5.0 seconds = 390.097 FPS

seemingly still no luck

sugar · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:42 am Post subject:

??

It DRI wasn't working you'd get this

sugar · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:43 am Post subject:

Oh! i see what the problem is.

In xorg.conf, its "dri", not "DRI" if I'm not mistaken

edit: nevermind. its ok how it is

sugar · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:51 am Post subject:

Compile agp into the kernel?

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

that's how it was originally...

ok if i am getting the right thing for fglrxinfo, shouldn't glxinfo tell me direct rendering: Yes?... At least that's what I would think... but I'm a n00b so I could be wrong..

sugar · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:26 am Post subject:

Well, you're using the driver, but you don't have dri, and it seems that most of the time, when people have this problem, its because there's a problem with the AGP not loading properly.

Just to make sure, in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 you have intel_agp, not intel-agp?

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

well it was intel-agp, but i changed it to intel_agp, and rebooted, no difference

madisonicus · Veteran Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1130

flamingpi6C73 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 50

is that a one time thing or do you need to do it every boot? because i have run that like 7 times... ill try again to make sure...