On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:39, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to turn on direct rendering using the Xorg (from unstable, > along with the linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 from unstable) ATI driver with no > success. The machine is at a remote location which makes the problem a bit > tougher to debug. > > I have turned on direct rendering on several machines (my laptop with ATI > card is one), so I have some experience, and things usually just work with > little futzing around. > > The user has reported that glxinfo indicates that direct rendering is not > turned on. lsmod shows that drm and agpgart modules are loaded along with > the associated nvidia_agp module. Doing a grep on drm from dmesg shows > that the R300 drm microcode is loaded. > > The Xorg.log indicates that the "ati" driver is used and that direct > rendering is activated. The /dev/dri/card0 is probed and found. Every > indication from the Xorg.log suggests that direct rendering is available, > but glxinfo and glxgears -printfps suggest otherwise. > > I have the libdrm2 installed as well as the relevant xorg software, > xlibmesa-dri, and libgl1-mesa-dri. > > I am a bit at a loss what is missing and where to look, since normally, > things just work. I have restarted X and rebooted the machine just to be > sure that kernel modules are loaded. > > Thanks, > > John Schmidt
To follow up on the fix . . . I had installed the fglrx-kernel-driver stuff and the GL diversions were the problem. Removing the fglrx-kernel-driver allowed direct rendering to work with the native Xorg "ati" driver. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
