On Thursday 18 December 2003 9:44 am, Peter Whysall wrote:
Gideon Hallett said:
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 5:13 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wed December 17 2003 12:03 pm, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
<snip> When I finally got my 9700 Pro working in hardware mode, the glxgears went from 280 fps (Mesa) to 4100 fps (hardware) - so it *is* worth the effort if you want to do 3D stuff in SuSE. <snip>
I have a slight problem on my 9.0 system: although I've added "/sbin/modprobe/agpgart" in /etc/init.d/boot.local, it doesn't seem to load the module and hence I get an unaccelerated display; if I drop to runlevel 3, rmmod fglrx and then modprobe agpgart and fglrx in that order, then go back to runlevel 5, I get a fully accelerated display.
Out of curiosity, are you using a Via KT400-based motherboard with an AGP 8x slot? If so, then you might want to try looking at the various unofficial patches out there to fix AGP recognition for the 3.2.5/3.2.8 fglrx modules; or you can edit agpgart_be.c by hand before compiling the module. (See http://codenix.net/radeon-howto.html for an example, or http:// nifelheim.dyndns.org/%7Ecocidius/ for a typical patch. AFAIAA, ATI were fixing this issue for the upcoming 3.2.10 release.) I can't be certain that this fixed my problem, since I got my hardware acceleration working at something like 02:00 after prodding and poking stuff willy-nilly for several hours. But it's worth a try. best wishes, Gideon.