Well, I've discovered something interesting. I thought it seemed too good to be true when I used the fglrx driver and my screens both came up the same as with the radeon driver.
It seems fglrx is unloading itself and loading the radeon driver! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose fglrxinfo libGL error: XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false libGL error: XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false 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 6.4.2) Here's the interesting part of the Xorg log: (II) Loading sub module "radeon" (II) LoadModule: "radeon" (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (II) RADEON(0): ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.23.7 (II) RADEON(0): ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: LGDr8.23g1 (II) RADEON(0): ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Mar 6 2006 17:26:27 (II) RADEON(0): ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.23.1-driver-lnx-250560 (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (--) Chipset RADEON 9800 PRO (R350 4E48) found (II) RADEON(0): pEnt->device->identifier=0x8201ee8 ............................ (II) Module xaa: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.2.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8 (II) RADEON(0): AGP Fast Write disabled by default (II) Loading sub module "shadowfb" (II) LoadModule: "shadowfb" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadowfb.so (II) Module shadowfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2 (II) RADEON(0): Page flipping disabled (II) RADEON(0): Will try to use DMA for Xv image transfers (II) RADEON(0): No MM_TABLE found - assuming CARD is not TV-in capable. (!!) RADEON(0): For information on using the multimedia capabilities of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net. (II) fglrx(1): === [R200PreInit] === begin, [s] (EE) fglrx(1): Quitting secondary screen -- no monitor specified. (EE) fglrx(1): R200PreInit failed (II) fglrx(1): === [R200PreInit] === end (II) UnloadModule: "ati" (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx" (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so .......................... On Friday 17 March 2006 06:27, Travis Willard wrote: > Chris Hilton wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose fglrxinfo > > libGL error: XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false > > libGL error: XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false > > 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 6.4.2) > > DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false? Hm... haven't seen that > error before, but it almost sounds like it's trying to query your card > to see if it's capable of hardware accel and coming back with a big > 'no'... which is odd. > > I have a suspicion that, since you installed the fglrx drivers (which > install their own libGL.so) that the free DRI drivers have problems > interfacing with that version of the GL library, maybe? > > > Honestly I could care less about gl working, I prefer the xorg drivers > > (they crash less) and those are what I'm on now. Although I imagine I'd > > get a similar error on fglrx as I think it's DRI and or something to do > > with AGPGART that makes it not work (because like I said, this card won't > > work on my board, but it works on my friends) > > > > > > I just want the horizontal lines gone. > > I figured as much - but I thought that maybe if you got gl working, the > lines would go away. Shot in the dark, I know, but I figured it was > worth a try. > > > I'll try and remember to try this with fglrx tomorrow so you can have > > more useful information. > > Allrighty. Maybe that'll shed some more light on the situation, because > at the moment I'm not sure what needs to be done. > > > Thanks for the help, > > --Chris > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- "The only winning move is not to play." _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
