Alex Schuster wrote: > I have a Radeon HD 3200 and I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Higher versions > did not compile. My kernel is 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3, and with newer kernels I > was not able to build any ati-drivers at all. That was a while ago. I tried > ati-drivers-9.6 a month ago when that came out, and I don't remember what > exactly happened, it compiled but it didn't work either.
I'm also using ati-drivers-8.552-r2, but with gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 (I usually skip one kernel release but .27 was initally riddled with problems so I skipped it and, well, I will probably not upgrade until I hear good news with regards to the open source drivers and the related kernel changes - maybe .32?)... I really don't know anything about tuxonice kernels, other than it's patches maintained out-of-tree with support for suspend-to-disk. I know that there has been problems with the suspend in the mainline but again I don't know if tuxonice is affected. As an experiment, you could try a vanilla or gentoo-sources kernel with the ati-drivers to see if that alleviates the problems you are having. > fgl_glxgears sort of runs, with 135-170 FPS, but the graphics is distorted - > see http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/fgl_glxgears.png . Other OpenGL software Have you tried different settings in xorg.conf? I have this in mine (only the - maybe - relevant stuff shown): ... Section "Module" Load "glx" Load "extmod" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "type1" EndSection Section "dri" Group 27 # video Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "fglrx" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Unknown Board" Option "mtrr" "off" # === OpenGL specific profiles/settings === Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000" # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension === Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" Option "CenterMode" "off" Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off" Option "Stereo" "off" Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1" Option "UseFastTLS" "0" Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on" Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no" Screen 0 EndSection ... Of course, my settings may be different from your needs. > No idea where this comes from, maybe it's not even related to OpenGL, but > ip_firegl_write looks like it might be. Well, I'm no expert but fglrx may be incompatible with tuxonice... > And Xorg.0.log shows these lines: > (EE) AIGLX error: fglrx exports no extensions (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: > undefined symbol: __driDriverExtensions) > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering As far as I can tell it seems like it's reverting to software rendering, maybe for the AIGLX extension or maybe for all rendering... > Does that mean I do not have hardware opengl rendering? fglrxinfo shows: Try: glxinfo | grep -i direct You should get: "direct rendering: Yes" ...if you have hardware opengl. I also found this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/176441 It's for older ati-drivers but identical error message... > I hope with the newer drivers (and perhaps a newer kernel) things will > become better. I did not yet take the time to investigate this further. I've "heard" that newer kernels (>=2.6.29?) are not working with ati-drivers. Not sure if this has been alleviated... Could be other problems as well, of course... Best regards Peter K
