Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-13 Thread Martin Spott
Steven Beeckman wrote: > Now I'm using 2.4.24 (in the twenties) but I'm planning on upgrading to > some 2.6 kernel (the newest one probably). Slackware 10.0 ships with > X.org [...] I believe with XOrg and a 2.6 kernel you already have anything you need to get happy :-) Cheers, Martin.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-13 Thread Steven Beeckman
Citeren Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Steven Beeckman wrote: > > > Martin, if you want you may explain to me how to get the ATI Radeon > 9200 > > to work on a brand new Slackware 10.0 ;-) > > Which kernel release do you have with Slackware 10.0 ? Now I'm using 2.4.24 (in the twenties) bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-13 Thread Martin Spott
Steven Beeckman wrote: > Martin, if you want you may explain to me how to get the ATI Radeon 9200 > to work on a brand new Slackware 10.0 ;-) Which kernel release do you have with Slackware 10.0 ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
Steven Beeckman wrote: > PS: Alex: what's fglrx? The drivers from ATI? I've tried the rpm I > think, but it didn't work out either :-s (probably because of what you > said: two ways to solve the same problem ...) 'fglrx' is the closed source driver from ATI. You probably need to tweak the build

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
Steven Beeckman wrote: > Martin, if you want you may explain to me how to get the ATI Radeon 9200 > to work on a brand new Slackware 10.0 ;-). The docs of DRI speak about > getting the CVS of X.Org, configuring the kernel [...] I don't know which release of X11 is being shipped with Slackware 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-08 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Actually, since the radeon driver is working better than fglrx at the moment, I would like to see if I can speed the framerate up first. I will include the logs tomorrow. Thanks in advance, Ampere On November 8, 2004 09:27 pm, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > I would certainly like to hear your adv

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-08 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
It turned out that the half of dozen kernel panic I have and my sloppy repair works was also a contributor to the problem. To make a long story short, I wipped the drive clean and start fresh. I would certainly like to hear your advice on the fglrx route. =) Ampere On November 8, 2004 11:12 a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-08 Thread Steven Beeckman
Alex Perry wrote: From: Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Ampere K. Hardraade" wrote: Sigh... and I thought ATI is supposed to be Linux-friendly?! Things have changed a bit these days, but the r200 chip is still one of the best supported GPU's in the OpenSource world. The problem on

[Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-08 Thread Alex Perry
From: Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Ampere K. Hardraade" wrote: > > Sigh... and I thought ATI is supposed to be Linux-friendly?! > Things have changed a bit these days, but the r200 chip is still one of > the best supported GPU's in the OpenSource world. The problem on _your_ > computer is no

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-07 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Use Internal or not, it doesn't make any difference to me -- no direct rendering. =( Ampere On November 7, 2004 11:27 pm, Alex Perry wrote: > It found the card, initialized the driver, everything is fine. > However, you told it to use the built in AGP driver, rather than > the kernel one, and it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-07 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
By mask, do you mean this line in XF86Config-4? Option "AGPMode" "#" If so, it is no use. X just skips it. =( I will try again. Ampere On November 7, 2004 09:15 pm, Alex Perry wrote: > If my memory serves me correctly, this is referring to the mask by which > you specify which AGP modes the ha

[Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-07 Thread Alex Perry
The bits I thought were relevant: > (II) PCI: 01:02:0: chip 1002,5964 card 148c,2074 rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 > (--) PCI: (0:2:0) Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated > Graphics Device rev 1, Mem @ 0x2000/27 > (--) PCI:*(1:2:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x596

[Flightgear-devel] Re: ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-07 Thread Alex Perry
> Also, in the XFree86.0.log, this keeps coming up: > (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] could not determine AGP since mode=0x > I did some googlings but I couldn't find anything related to this problem If my memory serves me correctly, this is referring to the mask by which you specify which AGP modes