Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-03-01 Thread Bruce Burden
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BoardName RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600] The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this chip. But they are working on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-03-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:30:48 -0600 Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: My real issue is that fglrx worked under Suse 9.2, and not under Gentoo. But, no, I am NOT going back. Try installing xfishtank under

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 18:50, Bo Andresen wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing now, with and without radeon. :) Actually the results using dri is worse than the results without dri in

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:13, Bo Andresen wrote: I am very surprised by this but it turns out direct rendering is working now with the kernel modules. And the performance is quite a bit better than before: [SNIP] Well, when I conducted the tests that yielded a performance of 228 FPS with

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: The previous kernel had dri compiled as modules and I have never had direct rendering working with it... until now.. I am very surprised by this but it turns out direct rendering is working now with the kernel modules. Are you certain that the radeon module being used is

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BoardName RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600] The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this chip. But they are working on it. If someone wishes to try it out, upgrade to modular Xorg (7.0), and get

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 21:31, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: The previous kernel had dri compiled as modules and I have never had direct rendering working with it... until now.. I am very surprised by this but it turns out direct rendering is working now with the

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 21:31, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are you certain that the radeon module being used is the one from that old kernel and not the one from x11-drm? I am very certain... but then again, I've been so before in this thread and yet been terribly

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-28 Thread Bo Andresen
While the two kernels are the same version from portage they have of course different EXTRAVERSION. For the kernel I compiled for dri I simply added '-dri' to EXTRAVERSION. So when running uname -r it yielded 2.6.15-r1-dri. The previous kernel which I am running now lacks the '-dri'. On

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? Good question. I don't know. What I do is simply move the driver in /usr/lib/modules/dri/ out of the way, or renaming it temporarily (to say NOTradeon_dri.so). Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bruce Burden wrote: # lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 98464 0 drm61592 1 radeon agpgart27216 1 drm There should also be an agp module specific for your chipset. [fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Unable to the open

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:03, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? Good question. I don't know. What I do is simply move the driver in /usr/lib/modules/dri/ out of the way, or renaming it temporarily (to say

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing now, with and without radeon. :) Actually the results using dri is worse than the results without dri in terms of frame rates. Without dri I get something like 250

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Burden
Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: name of display: tigerprowl:0.0 Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. display: tigerprowl:0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string:

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 26 February 2006 05:02, Bruce Burden wrote: Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: First of all did you follow the guide at http://www.gentoolinux.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml ? Or any other guide? Assuming you used the guided

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: snip BoardName RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600] The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this chip. You can verify

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Maybe try again, taking extra care to avoid typos in VIDEO_CARDS=ati? I did do that. And as stated before it won't compile without the VIDEO_CARDS variable in it's environment. Tried several times with both ati

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 20:14, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Maybe try again, taking extra care to avoid typos in VIDEO_CARDS=ati? I did do that. And as stated before it won't compile without the VIDEO_CARDS

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: I was very sure that I had tested this twice with VIDEO_CARDS=ati. Both times the ati flag didn't get enabled That's why I said to take extra care to avoid typos. :) i.e. emerge -vp x11-drm showed: [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20051223 VIDEO_CARDS=-ati -i810 -mga

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing now, with and without radeon. :) Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Burden
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bruce Burden wrote: Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks ago, and I still get the 20050502 version, Do an 'eix x11-drm' and see it lists a 20051223 version, keyword masked. (If you don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: I don't have a kernel module called radeon. I guess that's the problem.. Aah! But that module is provided by x11-base/x11-drm. Maybe you need to add the video_cards_ati USE flag? You are suggesting I move to version udev-084? Only when you have the radeon module and it

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: Do you think this is a bug in the ebuild? No. But maybe it is a bug in the newer version of portage that you use, because here the VIDEO_CARDS=via gets autoconverted to the video_cards_via USE flag. Maybe try

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-22 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 17 February 2006 12:20, Ghaith Hachem wrote: havn't tried it since i have a newer unspoorted ship (X300SE) but try this guide here http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers I'll try that howto when I get some time... Thanks. -- Bo Andresen --

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bruce Burden wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried that? Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Fernández López
As I've read in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers there's no way to make it work for a Radeon above 9100. Oh !! mine is Mobility Radeon 9700, if I want DRI through open source drivers, I've no way to do it? Bye, Rafael Fernández López. pgp9zokH8act6.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I've read in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers there's no way to make it work for a Radeon above 9100. Oh !! mine is Mobility Radeon 9700, if I want DRI through open source drivers, I've no way to do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Ghaith Hachem
havn't tried it since i have a newer unspoorted ship (X300SE) but try this guide here http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers On 2/17/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to get 3d rendering

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ~# lsmod | grep 'drm\|agp' drm65944 0 intel_agp 20508 1 agpgart29256 2 drm,intel_agp There should also be a drm_radeon there (not sure how it's called because I use it builtin the kernel)

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Bruce Burden
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried that? Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks ago, and I still get the