On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:15:38PM +0300, Juha Erkkila wrote: > I have an IBM Thinkpad T43, and I'm trying to get radeondrm(4) > and the X DRI stuff working on it, without luck. Everything > works on X as if nothing is actually accelerated, games > such as xmoto, fretsonfire and quake2 (GLX mode) are not > playable because of too sluggish motion, and mplayer -vo gl > gives similar results. > > 17:55 j...@aito:~$ glxgears > 424 frames in 5.0 seconds = 84.757 FPS > 608 frames in 5.0 seconds = 121.428 FPS > 626 frames in 5.0 seconds = 125.067 FPS > 600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 119.840 FPS > 641 frames in 5.0 seconds = 128.019 FPS > > glxgears performance is pretty much the same when I disable > radeondrm(4) in the kernel. > > Here's some more system information. I *have* also tried using > smaller screen sizes (1024x768 / 16bpp), and setting virtual desktop > size to 1024x768 as well. I have understood I should not need > to do any special configuration for this to work. > > Juha > > <snip> > OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads the logs they post to mailing lists. now: $ ls -lh /dev/drm0 crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 87, 0 Mar 6 01:37 /dev/drm0 So either change those permissions to allow you access the file, or the other alternative is obvious. I really should consider changing those default permissions... -0- -- Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
