* BandiPat (penguin0601@earthlink.net) [030730 21:02]:
Running glxinfo shows no direct rendering and gears are slow and Tux Racer is slow. The 7200 is about the same as the 7000 card, so it doesn't fit into the "need an ATI binary driver" to get the 3d working. In fact, I believe the standard XFree86 4.3 supports 3d for the Radeons up to the 9200, but beyond that you need the binary drivers.
Any thoughts anyone? Has someone run across this lately as well?
Well, I've posted about this weird happening before. It seems that every 25-35 days of uptime..give or take..my Radeon 7500 just stops being able to use Direct Rendering. I run 3Ddiag and make sure everything is kosher but the only thing that fixes it is a reboot. I've tried everything from removing the modules to running SaX2 ..etc..etc. Nothing works accept a reboot. Then all is peachy for the next month or so. I've never had an answer that came close to being correct about this issue. It never cropped up while I was using my nVidia based Diamond Viper 770 Ultra which has made me thing that my next card may be an nVidia FX card. If anyone has thoughts on this ..I to would LOVE to hear them. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.