Re: [SLE] ATI Rage 128 PCI & 9.0 problems

currently it says :- Section "Device" BoardName "Rage 128 PP" BusID "1:13:0" Driver "ati" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 VendorName "ATI" EndSection bst rgrds Russell On 29 Dec 2003 14:44:14 -0500 Mark Gray wrote:

Russell Keith Davis writes:

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I just noticed something at the top of glxinfo's output it says direct rendering: No and I honestly swear 3 nights ago it said yes there

I have tried setting 3d using yast and it doesn't seem to stick but i have other problems with yast/sax in that sax uses a wierd setting that screws up and freezes with what looks like to be the wrong horizontal frequency as it displays lots of little versions of the screen at the top just as if the freq was incorrect.

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I have this in my XF86Config.

Section "Module" Load "v4l" Load "glx" Load "speedo" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "GLcore" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" EndSection

What is the content of your Section "Device"? I found I had to add a:

Option "AGPMode" "2"

to mine (ATI Radeon 7000 agp card), if yours is not a agp-2 card this would not apply of course.

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glxinfo:

name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No

That's the problem alright.

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I think I might have other problems now though as the differences between the last time i ran 3Ddiag, glxinfo etc. and just now to check seem quite big even if i can't remember exactly what they are. guess it's time to potter about again.

If it is an agp card, I found that I have to have USB enabled in my bios (I do not know if this is a requirement for all AGP cards, it is just a thing I picked up reading the newsgroup for my motherboard an eon or two ago.)

Also take a look at what /var/log/XFree86.0.log has to say when the X server tries to enable Direct rendering.

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