Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[Carlos Sia <blue_blood@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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