On Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:10 am, Lonn wrote:
William H Lugg wrote:
I guess I not sure how to do this. I start SaX2 through YaST and it shows the card as a ATI RV350 AS (it's a 9250, BTW). But there doesn't seem to be anything that turns on 3D support.
Where should I be looking that I'm not? -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 7:39 pm, BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 21:26, William H Lugg wrote:
Here they are... glxgears: 1560 frames in 5.0 seconds = 312.000 FPS fgl_glxgears: I doesn't seem to work. Following is the error returned. Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) Major opcode of failed request: 16 (X_InternAtom) Serial number of failed request: 26 Current serial number in output stream: 29
I'm not sure what that means. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO
[...] ======== Bill, When are you going to enable 3D for that card? Not sure what model card you have, but from testing on an ATI card, the results you have are for 2D only using MESA rendering. Enabling 3D will increase your numbers 5-7 times over those numbers. At least that's what I get with my 9200 using the built-in ATI modules provided by SuSE's kernel.
Lee
I am in the market for a graphics card so I followed your posts.
Here is what I found: There is more info about the ATI RV350AS on the web than you will ever find on the STI site.
Proprietary Drivers needed - not available as Open Souce -- for RV350AS chipset.
I can't really dope this out, but maybe it will make sense to you. Drivers for Linux are available.
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.hardware/2005-04/0394.h tml
Lee -- if what I found is non-sense (it was good in April) then please tell Bill not to take off on the stuff I found.
I'm running SuSE 10.0 and have a RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]. I went to the ATI website and downloaded: fglrx_6_8_0-8.18.6-1.i386.rpm I installed it, read the README and ran the procedure to create a new /etc/xorg.conf file. (save the old one first!) Restarted the X server and I am getting a framerate of 2,000 ++ Note: the above procedures were outlined on this list over a month ago. If you follow the procedures, DO NOT go into YAST and expect to enable 3D. It won't let you and it is not necessary. Just check the framerate with glxgears.