3D Acceleration for Radeon 9200 in SUSE 9.0 Professional
Hi all! I am wondering how to get 3D support for my Radeon 9200. This has been a source of endless frustration for me. I once had to repartition and reinstall SUSE 9.0 because of the following symptoms I got after changing ANY setting in SaX: there would be no monitor output (no picture on my monitor, but Linux is running - you can tell because of the HDD activity light) when the system reaches runlevel 5 (full GUI, X server started). The system would boot to failsafe/console only but would give the same symptom when the command startx was executed. This seems to be the problem with Mandrake 9.1, which I have tried on my machine a few months ago - the installation runs fine, but when the X server is started, the monitor output goes bye-bye. It put me off Linux for a while - we had thought it a graphics card/monitor issue. I was pleasantly surprised when SUSE detected my hardware, but was disappointed to find that I had no 3D and was on 16-bit colour (the default settings which I am still using now). I have installed the fglrx driver rpm, and SaX ticked the checkbox marked "3D support", but executing the command glxinfo | head gives the following results: - Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: - Obviously, 3D has not been enabled. Also, the ATi control panel (fireglcontrol) does not operate completely; it says the X11 extensions are missing. For your reference, my graphics hardware setup is: - Sapphire Technologies Atlantis ATI Radeon 9200 (128MB DDR frame buffer, AGP 8x, VGA/TV-out/DVI) - Samsung SyncMaster 152T TFT-LCD connected via DVI SUSE detected this as: - RV280 5961 (fglrx) - Samsung SyncMaster 4S - 3D acceleration enabled Is there a way to get 3D support for my hardware? How do I get my Syncmaster 152T identified correctly? Am I better off buying an NVidia GeForce FX 5700 instead? Please help because, among other things, I can't play 3D games and the desktop lags when dragging windows around. :( Cheers, Carl
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 02:04 pm, Carlos Sia wrote:
Hi all!
I am wondering how to get 3D support for my Radeon 9200. This has been a source of endless frustration for me. I once had to repartition and reinstall SUSE 9.0 because of the following symptoms I got after changing ANY setting in SaX: there would be no monitor output (no picture on my monitor, but Linux is running - you can tell because of the HDD activity light) when the system reaches runlevel 5 (full GUI, X server started). The system would boot to failsafe/console only but would give the same symptom when the command startx was executed. This seems to be the problem with Mandrake 9.1, which I have tried on my machine a few months ago - the installation runs fine, but when the X server is started, the monitor output goes bye-bye. It put me off Linux for a while - we had thought it a graphics card/monitor issue. I was pleasantly surprised when SUSE detected my hardware, but was disappointed to find that I had no 3D and was on 16-bit colour (the default settings which I am still using now).
I have installed the fglrx driver rpm, and SaX ticked the checkbox marked "3D support", but executing the command glxinfo | head gives the following results: [...] Please help because, among other things, I can't play 3D games and the desktop lags when dragging windows around. :(
Cheers,
Carl =============
Carl, I am taking this off list, as this has been covered several times here already. You can do a search in the mail archives for complete solutions to your problem. I'll go over a few to get you started. I have the ATI 9200 Pro board, so I don't know how much difference there may be in your Sapphire card and my ATI branded card. Since the 9200 is both supported by the kernel and sax2 now in SuSE 9.0, there is no real need to install the ATI specific driver. If you do install the ATI driver, then you can no longer use the program, sax2, to do setup. If you do use sax2 with the ATI driver, you will lose everything the ATI driver did to make it work! You HAVE to use the ATI setup program from a shell/konsole for that now! I have not had trouble one with the setup of my 9200 with 9.0 using sax2, nor 3d settings. Everything should work out of the box with yours too. As far as the monitor goes, if it is not in the monitor database, then add it yourself to the database and it will be shown the next time you use sax2. Just follow the general format that you see in the file with other monitors of your brand. The mails you will need are probably back a couple of months, maybe more, but I have written complete how to mails there a couple of times, which should work for you also. Regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.6 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
BandiPat wrote:
As far as the monitor goes, if it is not in the monitor database, then add it yourself to the database and it will be shown the next time you use sax2. Just follow the general format that you see in the file with I would like to do that too but I don't find any info on where this database is. Can you tell me where it is?
Damon Register
On 04/29/2004 12:53 AM, Damon Register wrote:
I would like to do that too but I don't find any info on where this database is. Can you tell me where it is?
/usr/X11R6/lib/sax/api/data/cdb/Monitors -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
This was dealt with a few months ago, please check the archives. Not a flame it's just easier to follow the flow this way. Mainly it depends on your Card's brand. regards scsijon At 03:04 AM 11/02/2004, Carlos Sia wrote:
Hi all!
I am wondering how to get 3D support for my Radeon 9200. This has been a source of endless frustration for me. I once had to repartition and reinstall SUSE 9.0 because of the following symptoms I got after changing ANY setting in SaX: there would be no monitor output (no picture on my monitor, but Linux is running - you can tell because of the HDD activity light) when the system reaches runlevel 5 (full GUI, X server started). The system would boot to failsafe/console only but would give the same symptom when the command startx was executed. This seems to be the problem with Mandrake 9.1, which I have tried on my machine a few months ago - the installation runs fine, but when the X server is started, the monitor output goes bye-bye. It put me off Linux for a while - we had thought it a graphics card/monitor issue. I was pleasantly surprised when SUSE detected my hardware, but was disappointed to find that I had no 3D and was on 16-bit colour (the default settings which I am still using now).
I have installed the fglrx driver rpm, and SaX ticked the checkbox marked "3D support", but executing the command glxinfo | head gives the following results:
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Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions:
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Obviously, 3D has not been enabled. Also, the ATi control panel (fireglcontrol) does not operate completely; it says the X11 extensions are missing.
For your reference, my graphics hardware setup is: - Sapphire Technologies Atlantis ATI Radeon 9200 (128MB DDR frame buffer, AGP 8x, VGA/TV-out/DVI) - Samsung SyncMaster 152T TFT-LCD connected via DVI
SUSE detected this as: - RV280 5961 (fglrx) - Samsung SyncMaster 4S - 3D acceleration enabled
Is there a way to get 3D support for my hardware? How do I get my Syncmaster 152T identified correctly? Am I better off buying an NVidia GeForce FX 5700 instead?
Please help because, among other things, I can't play 3D games and the desktop lags when dragging windows around. :(
Cheers,
Carl
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