No 3d Support With Ati Radeon X700 And Latest Driver

Hello,

I've installed the ATI driver version 8.22.5-i386 on my SUSE 10.0 on a ACER ASPIRE 1692wlmi. It seems there is no 3D acceleration because the driver is not/baddly installed.

I've followed the guidelines of ATI to install the driver (download rpm for suse, install it ..., run aticonfig to generate a new xorg.conf ...)

fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)

fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 32
Current serial number in output stream: 32

glxgears
750 frames in 5.0 seconds = 150.000 FPS
840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 168.000 FPS
840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 168.000 FPS
840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 168.000 FPS
840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 168.000 FPS
720 frames in 5.0 seconds = 144.000 FPS
870 frames in 5.0 seconds = 174.000 FPS
840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 168.000 FPS

lsmod | grep fglrx

(empty)



/etc/X11/xorg.conf

(...)
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Mobility Radeon X700 5653 (M26) (PCIE)"
(...)


I have no idea how to solve the problem...


Vincent

fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 32
Current serial number in output stream: 32

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Hi all

VincentCosmo, have you sorted it out yet?

I am getting almost exactly the same symptoms with my (AGP) Radeon 9600 pro, running on an AMD machine, with a Gigabyte 7NF-RZ motherboard and a Thunderbird 2800+ CPU. I have 896MB RAM (512+256+128) running in dual-channel mode (512MB on one channel and 256MB+128MB on the other).

I installed the driver by downloading the installer script and running that.

fglrxinfo gives me exactly the same info as it does for VincentCosmo.

fgl_glxgears gives almost exactly the same result too:

**Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
**X Error of failed request:**BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
****Major opcode of failed request:**143 (GLX)
****Minor opcode of failed request:**5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
****Serial number of failed request:**33
****Current serial number in output stream:**33

xorg.conf

**Section "Device"
**********Identifier**"ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
**********Driver******"fglrx"
**********BusID****** "PCI:2:0:0"
**EndSection

Running 3D games is incredibly slow. Running GL-117 from the command line works, but its main menu runs at 9 FPS, VegaStrike is probably closer to 3 FPS (in the MENUs).

Running GL-117 from the K menu gives the warning:
3D Hardware Support Not Available
No 3D graphics card available or 3D support is not configured yet. However, the application uses or requires 3D hardware support.

Running sax2 from the command line produces

**SaX: root Password:
**SaX: initializing done, using cache data...
**SaX: startup

and then nothing.

Thanks all!

Hi all

VincentCosmo, have you sorted it out yet?

I am getting almost exactly the same symptoms ...[/b]

Okay, I realize that I'm still in the wrong forum, sorry about that - but I have the solution. It seems that you need to do a little preparation of the kernel sources first.

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make mrproper
# make cloneconfig
# make modules_prepare

After that, I did the following:

Download the ATI Driver Installer (~30MB) from ATI’s site

# su
****(Switches to root)

# sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.xx.xx-i386.run –get-supported
****(this will show the supported OS, which in my case was SuSE/SUSE100-IA32)

# sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.xx.xx-i386.run –buildpkg SuSE/SUSE100-IA32
****(this will create rpm installer for ATI drivers for your distro)

# init 3
****(Beware that this causes X-windows and any applications you are running to close completely)

Log in as root and then install driver:
# rpm -Uhv fglrx_6_8_0_SUSE-8.xx.xx.1.i386.rpm

# sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/sax2-profile

In my case, the sax2 call didn't work (my monitor said "sync out of range"). sax2 -l (for low resolution) didn't work either, for some reason. The exact commandline that worked for me, was:

# sax2 -V0:1024x768@85 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/sax2-profile

Thanks to fubar on #linux (lagnet.org.za) for the steps to prepare the kernel sources.
Thanks also to Cirion: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...howtopic=30765
(Yes i know its on the same forum. IIRC, that thread doesn't mention the kernel sources preparation. Moderator?)