On Thursday 27 November 2003 06:08 pm, Jaan Kold wrote:
Hi all,
Anyone upgraded to the Suse -144 kernel update with ATI Radeon 3D problems? Got a ATI R350 NH (R9800)........Hercules branded
1) The stock -99 kernel caused ~40% kernel system calls in my hyperthreading P4 3GHz CPU, sluggish operation, and fglrx would not load.
2) I fixed this with Mantel's -121 'test' kernel, which also was an enabler for ATI fglrx 3.2.8 3D driver to kick in properly: glxgears gave ~4300fps (Do have mtrr boot error messages related to the gfx card but hey..it works..)
3) Took now down the -144 kernel off Suse YOU, reinstalled fglrx 3.2.8 driver, just as before, indeed lsmod shows fglrx module loaded but: glxgears now shows only ~370fps [...] QUESTION: I may not have succeeded or understood how to install ASWELL kernel sources for my machine after I did install the -144 kernel update? I was assuming it did automatically? .in the /usr/src/linux/ directory?
For good measure a screen shot of the links in my source directory: http://www.bostreammail.com/kalev/kernelsource.png
..I can test and roll back to the -121 kernel from Mantel -- but I just thought I should check here too?..and check that indeed there was no added step to install the -144 source..
jk ===============
Jaan, First of all, you are using all the wrong programs to set your graphics and all the wrong programs to check your 3D. If you decide to use the ATI drivers, then the whole procedure changes! Read the docs with the rpm or on SuSE's site that contains the ATI drivers or the docs from ATI's site. One of them is sure to enlighten you somewhat. The test programs setup to work with normal graphics, will not work with the ATI driver, they don't see each other. My guess is that you could remove the ATI driver now and use just that stuff that comes with SuSE 9.0! I thought I would have to reinstall the ATI drivers I was using with 8.2 after installing 9.0, but everything was well supported and my ATI 9200 is working nicely with just SuSE supplied drivers. I believe your 9800 would as well, not sure if I saw the 350 in the list or not, but it was supported before, I believe, so it should be now too! If you use the ATI drivers, you can't use sax2, you can't use agpgart and your config file will no longer be XF86Config. You have to use the setup program included with the ATI driver. Use sax2 and all or any work you might have accomplished will be for null. If I were you, I think I would rpm -e the ATI driver from the system. Do CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to the terminal, log in as root, init 3 and then do sax2 -r -m 0=radeon to start the normal graphics setup. See if your 350 is supported in the list and set your 3d, etc. to get things working. If your card is not listed, then you can move to the ATI driver. If you do have to use the ATI driver, then use the appropriate programs to set it up and get it working. Be sure also that your system is not trying to load the agpgart module as ATI supplies one of it's own. Good Luck Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...