Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-05-01 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the radeon driver, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers... Any suggestions? What can I look for to make sure I've done

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:21 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: You can check your config with glxinfo | grep direct which should return Yes. $ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect If it doesn't, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (assuming we are

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-05-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Iain Buchanan wrote: (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. Have a look at $ dmesg | egrep agp|drm and at

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-05-01 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Buchanan schrieb: On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:21 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: You can check your config with glxinfo | grep direct which should return Yes. $ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-05-01 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benno Schulenberg schrieb: Iain Buchanan wrote: (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 13:14 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: - - update the xorg to 7.X - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Iain Buchanan wrote: (snip) Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the radeon driver, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers... (snip) are u sure of that 2500+ fps.. I think its 250+ fps.. If not i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-30 Thread Jacques Montier
Martins Steinbergs a gentiment tapote: Hi, Well, It's me again, I was satisfied too quickly ! After upgrading xorg to xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and getting dri successfully, gdm still crashes at reboot (kernel panic). I really don't know what to do now :-( Any idea ? Thanks a lot, --- Jacques --

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:21 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: (snip) Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the radeon driver, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers... (snip) are

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-29 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: - - update the xorg to 7.X - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon into the

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-28 Thread Jacques Montier
Iain Buchanan a gentiment tapote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: - - update the xorg to 7.X - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon into the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-28 Thread Martins Steinbergs
Hi, Well, It's me again, I was satisfied too quickly ! After upgrading xorg to xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and getting dri successfully, gdm still crashes at reboot (kernel panic). I really don't know what to do now :-( Any idea ? Thanks a lot, --- Jacques -- check xorg logs for drivers version

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-27 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
On 4/26/06, Jannis Achstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I play UT2K4 here and it works. It ain't super-blazing (1,6GHz,512MB RAM, 128MB-Graphics-RAM so can't be too good for such hungrygames) but playable without any problems.Glad to here that! I used them a while ago, but they were quite

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-27 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] Is there a specific reason you suggest the Radeon driver from the kernel and not from the ebuild? AFAIK, the one you can emerge is more up to date most of the time. Which driver from the ebuild do you mean? AFAIK you need the DRM support

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-27 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Ptitjack wrote: Hi all, I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. Do you get that same trouble on your own ? I really don't know what to do except downgrading to

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: - - update the xorg to 7.X - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon into the kernel can you specify what kernel version you're

[gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Ptitjack
Hi all, I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. Do you get that same trouble on your own ? I really don't know what to do except downgrading to gentoo-sources-2.6.15.

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
On 4/26/06, Ptitjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without anyerror message when logging out.I have the exact same problem, with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ and Radeon 9000 pro. -- Ghislain Bourgeois --- Linux System administrator

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Dennis
I've had almost the exact same problem. I have the same card. I tried multiple ati drivers and different login managers with no success. I recently upgraded to Modular X and for some reason, it all started working normally again. If you don't want to upgrade, perhaps re-compiling X will

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 12:29, Ptitjack wrote: I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. Do you get that same trouble on your own ? I really don't know what to do

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Jacques Montier
fire-eyes a gentiment tapote: On Wednesday 26 April 2006 12:29, Ptitjack wrote: I have some problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 and ati-drivers. Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. Do you get that same trouble on your own

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/26/06, *Ptitjack* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine when logging in, but my pc freezes without any error message when logging out. I have the exact same problem, with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
On 4/26/06, Jannis Achstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I got an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and a Radeon 9000 Pro, so nearly thesame specs. And why do you use the ati-drivers?It is actually the only way to play games like UT2004 that need ST3C (patented algorithm crap). I had exactly the same

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-26 Thread Jannis Achstetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is actually the only way to play games like UT2004 that need ST3C (patented algorithm crap). Well, I play UT2K4 here and it works. It ain't super-blazing (1,6GHz, 512MB RAM, 128MB-Graphics-RAM so can't be too good for such hungry games) but