ATI graphics users, I seem to have lost "direct rendering" capabilities from my Radeon 7200 card. Checked all the usual things, modules are there, using Mantel's 2.4.21-4 athlon kernel, no recent changes to graphics setup or files. I have ran sax2 to make sure that went well and it did. Everything is activated that should be running. The /etc/sysconfig/3Ddiag has switch2xf86_glx running. 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? Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
* 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.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:44 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* 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
Ben, which FX card are you getting. I was thinking about getting a GF4-Ti (4200 or 4600) but it isn't DX9 enabled. I want this for HalfLife2 and Doom3 (though Carmack will most likely port of OSS/Linux - shaders are writing in an assmebly like manner). My problem is that HL2 uses some advance mipmapping, shader, and fog protocals. It should really bump up the bench mark, but it is DX9 dependent. Any thoughts? Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/KKdIiqnGhdjCOJsRAsx4AJ9RNK8H50yMLLy1LeRxm4Wu4yJPYwCfQlTV hbY2zY7tOxx3vaeDcqfUhIc= =4PVW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thursday 31 July 2003 01:21 am, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:44 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* 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
Ben, which FX card are you getting. I was thinking about getting a GF4-Ti (4200 or 4600) but it isn't DX9 enabled. I want this for HalfLife2 and Doom3 (though Carmack will most likely port of OSS/Linux - shaders are writing in an assmebly like manner). My problem is that HL2 uses some advance mipmapping, shader, and fog protocals. It should really bump up the bench mark, but it is DX9 dependent. Any thoughts?
Cheers, Curtis. ================
Ok, guys let's not turn this thread into a what is the best nvidia card thing. Curtis usually is complaining about someone hijacking a thread, so? Let's try to stick with the subject and problem and get that solved first please! Ben, since I usually boot fresh each day, dropping out as you describe doesn't happen here. Usually with mine, it's a file that has been installed that switches it off and resetting things with sax2, etc. gets it all going again, but that didn't happen this time, so I am not sure at this point what is going on now. I might try to go back to an earlier kernel to see if that has changed it, but the modules seem to be there for the radeon & ati drivers. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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