Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
On Friday 09 March 2007, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?': On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:18:53PM +, Grant Edwards wrote Run glxinfo and check the first few lines. What does it say for direct rendering: ? name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Well, then you have DRI working. You might enable/disable some driver options and/or server extensions to get the best speed out of your DRI. server glx vendor string: SGI However, it looks like you might be using the wrong driver or glx library; I've fairly sure this is supposed to be 'ATI' when using fglrx. Anything interesting in grep -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW! pgp2scNvjN8Gm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
Reply-To In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:55:57AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote Well, then you have DRI working. You might enable/disable some driver options and/or server extensions to get the best speed out of your DRI. server glx vendor string: SGI However, it looks like you might be using the wrong driver or glx library; I've fairly sure this is supposed to be 'ATI' when using fglrx. Anything interesting in grep -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? A few items of interest. I actually ran grep -A5 -B5 -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log and then trimmed down a bit. 1) 1609-(**) Extension XVideo is enabled 1644:(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) 1718-(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel 1756-(II) Module ABI versions: 1782- X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 I assume that this means no screensaver. 2) 21946-(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Dec 12 2006 17:18:27 22013-(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.32.2.1.2.3-driver-lnx-x86-x86_64-313294 22125-(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device 22187:(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:5:0:1) found 22263-(--) Chipset RADEON X300/X550 Series (RV370 5B60) found lspci shows 2 entries for the video card... 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] 05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] What is the second entry dupposed to be for? 3) (II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled (WW) fglrx(0): Option VendorName is not used (WW) fglrx(0): Option ModelName is not used (II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x1 (II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled (==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (**) fglrx(0): Video overlay enabled on CRTC1 Does this matter at all? 4) drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:5:0:0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 8 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports PCI:5:0:0 (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering reverting to software rendering ouch. This is probably it. Now what? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
On 2007-03-09, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:43:29PM +, Grant Edwards wrote On 2007-03-05, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In either case, what are the steps to follow? Use standard Gentoo to install the proprietary driver: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers Later... that very same evening... OK, I've installed ati-drivers with /etc/make.conf containingVIDEO_CARDS=vesa fglrx I did eselect opengl ati, ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and re-install of ati-drivers) Run glxinfo and check the first few lines. What does it say for direct rendering: ? I'm guessing it says No. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I feel... JUGULAR... at visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
On 2007-03-09, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: I did eselect opengl ati, ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and re-install of ati-drivers) Testing with glxgears, I get... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears 7492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.333 FPS googleearth still runs^H^H^H^H^H crawls under OpenGL. Yep - not that impressive, did you try the Xorg Radeon driver? The radeon driver doesn't support DRI on cards that recent. Using the same test on inferior HW (2xPIII 1.26Ghz + MSI Radean 9550) with radeon driver I get: 8931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1786.100 FPS That's not going to make a noticable difference. You have to have DRI to make Google Earth usable. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I request a weekend at in Havana with Phil visi.comSilvers! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:18:53PM +, Grant Edwards wrote Run glxinfo and check the first few lines. What does it say for direct rendering: ? I'm guessing it says No. name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig client glx vendor string: ATI client glx version string: 1.3 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture GLX version: 1.2 GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_multisample OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X300/X550 Series Generic OpenGL version string: 2.0.6234 (8.32.5) -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:43:29PM +, Grant Edwards wrote On 2007-03-05, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In either case, what are the steps to follow? Use standard Gentoo to install the proprietary driver: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers Later... that very same evening... OK, I've installed ati-drivers with /etc/make.conf containingVIDEO_CARDS=vesa fglrx I did eselect opengl ati, ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and re-install of ati-drivers) Testing with glxgears, I get... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears 7492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.333 FPS 7488 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.478 FPS 7489 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.702 FPS 7488 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.495 FPS 7488 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.548 FPS 7488 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.501 FPS 7488 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.588 FPS 7488 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.531 FPS 7297 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1459.389 FPS googleearth still runs^H^H^H^H^H crawls under OpenGL. BTW is there a speed test for mplayer? It runs with -vo as any of xv, x11, gl, or gl2. It'll also do sdl, but the picture is split up on some avi's. If it makes any difference, I use blackbox as my WM. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
A bit more detail; here's some of the output in the console that X is launched from... = X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux m3000 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #4 PREEMPT Thu Mar 8 19:32:51 EST 2007 i686 Build Date: 14 January 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Fri Mar 9 01:43:41 2007 (++) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:5:0:1) found (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering = Can't find the lib? Ok, so I try to cure that with the next two commands... [m3000][root][~] find / -name fglrx_dri.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so [m3000][root][~] ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so That merely produces a different error... = (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering = Any ideas anybody? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?
On 2007-03-05, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible using standard Gentoo, Yes. or do I have to load a proprietary driver? Yes. In either case, what are the steps to follow? Use standard Gentoo to install the proprietary driver: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I decided to be JOHN at TRAVOLTA instead!! visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
