Radeon 9200 card - no 3D acceleration

xcham

Alright folks, this will be a long post because I'm going to cover everything I've done up to this point, hoping that all the information I provide will help SOMEONE out there figure out why this is happening

Here's my system setup:

everything else, I think, is irrelevant (i.e. the soundcard has no bearing on this problem)

Essentially, I tried using the fglrx drivers ("emerge ati-drivers") without success. I couldn't even get X to START let alone 3D working. here are the errors:

Brooks · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

What video setting do you have in the kernel?

xcham · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 4:58 am Post subject:

I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

agpgart is loaded as a module.

I have DRM enabled also, with the Radeon module...

scubed · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 122

I'm not so sure that this is similar. It might turn out
that there is the same cause manifesting differently.

I get no warnings and no errors. It claims that
everything went okay, even though I don't
get direct rendering.

Ha, I guess 3GHz would make for some
pretty fast software rendered gears.

Also, I kind of wonder about this:

xcham · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject:

Actually, dude, XFree86.0.log always claimed that DRI was active. I don't get that either.

I got all the error messages to disappear except for this one:

xcham · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 6:34 am Post subject:

EUREKA!

Well, the card sort of works, now.

Actually, strangely enough, BOTH of the drivers will work on my system.

After fiddling with the ati-drivers for a little more as well as modding my kernel just a little bit, I got fglrx to use the external AGPGART (had to modprobe it with agp_try_unsupported=1) and somehow, it worked. However, all was not especially well in the kingdom of xcham. The terrible disappearing cursor made Unreal Tournament unplayable, and Tux Racer kind of annoying too. Also, because the ATI-Drivers only run at 24bpp, when I got my new monitor and ran 1600x1200 + full motion video in a window (watching TV or a DiVX movie or something) I'd get flickering to the left of it. 75 Hz is more than enough but unfortunately at 24bpp the poor Radeon 9200 couldn't keep up, it seems. So, I sought another solution.

The xfree-drm drivers were another matter altogether. I could not get DRI working with the generic radeon module, no matter how hard I tried. And even when It'd say "direct rendering: Yes", I'd run Unreal Tournament or even glxgears and the system would lock up.

After WEEKS, fate finally led me to this dude and by setting the ChipId to 0x514D things actually work. My framerates are alright, from what I can tell, in 1280x1024. EnablePageFlip sped things up as did AGPMode 4, but the AGPFastWrite locks my system. Everything seems alright with the xfree drivers (remember to opengl-update xfree or opengl-update ati when using one or the other implementation). Only problem with the xfree drivers is that when viewing video4linux capturing (xawtv) or Xvideo output ( mplayer -vo xv ...) I get a blue bar down the right side of the window. Still searching for a way to fix this, I may start a new thread since I don't think it's particularly a radeon problem or very suited to this thread's title.

Hope this is of help to somebody, and I hope this info gets included in a FAQ or HOWTO or something. Anyone who needs help with a Radeon 9200 card, pm me and I'll see what I can do.

UPDATE: I got rid of the blue bar with ChipId 0x4966

kyron · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:57 am Post subject: