DRI/GLX Again

[Ashcrow]

Darn it! I can't get any decents FPS. All 3D stuff id all choppy :-[. I'm using XFree86-4.1.0 with a AGP Radeon (with the driver insmoded of course). Here is my XF86Config-4

# This loads the DBE extension module.

  Load    "dbe"    # Double buffer extension
  Load    "extmod"

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
  SubSection "extmod"
   Option  "omit xfree86-dga"  # don't initialise the DGA extension
  EndSubSection

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
  Load    "type1"
  Load    "freetype"

# This loads the GLX module
  Load    "glx"
  Load    "dri"
  Load    "xie"
  Load    "record"
  Load    "pex5"
<skip fonts/input devices>
Section "Monitor"

  Identifier "My Monitor"
  HorizSync  31.5 - 82.0
  VertRefresh 40-150

EndSection
Section "Device"
  Identifier   "Card0"
  VendorName   "ATI"
  BoardName   "Radeon QD"
  Driver   "vga"
EndSection
Section "Device"
  Identifier "ATI Radeon AGP"
  Driver   "radeon"
  BoardName "Radeon QD"
  VideoRam  64000
EndSection
Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen 1"
  Device   "ATI Radeon AGP"
  Monitor   "My Monitor"
  DefaultDepth 24

  Subsection "Display"
    Depth    8
    Modes    "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
    ViewPort  0 0
  EndSubsection
  Subsection "Display"
    Depth    16
    Modes    "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
    ViewPort  0 0
  EndSubsection
  Subsection "Display"
    Depth    24
    Modes    "1600x1200"
    ViewPort  0 0
  EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "Simple Layout"
  Screen "Screen 1"
  InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection
Section "DRI
  Mode 0666
Endsection

Help

[Ashcrow]

pwetty pweeese :P

[ndogg]

Umm, why are you using the vga driver? You should be using the radeon driver. It might behoove you to change "vga" to "radeon".

[Ashcrow]

I tried changing it to radeon and it has the same effect. No diffrence :-(.

was it ASCI_Blue who had the same problems... It might be mesa... no ?

[ndogg]

Try going to the DRI website.

[Ashcrow]

I got the latest dri/drm modules and compiled them. I can't insmod them into the kernel though (except radeon.o, that works fine...).

[root@gnulinux drm]# /sbin/insmod radeon_state
Using /lib/modules/2.4.9-21/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon_state.o
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.9-21/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon_state.o will taint the kernel: no license

[root@gnulinux drm]# /sbin/insmod radeon_drv.o
radeon_drv.o: unresolved symbol cmpxchg
[root@gnulinux drm]#


Also, I tried running the utility for checking the configuration and here is the output ....

[root@gnulinux ash]# ./DRIsetup-linux-i386

Direct Rendering Infrastructure testing program

Checking your system.......

Your config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Your module path is /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
You are running in GLX Indirect Rendering Mode
The kernel module has not been loaded
[root@gnulinux ash]#

[ndogg]

I think that radeon_drv.o is actually an XF4 driver, not a kernel module. Try putting it into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers

[DaveFitz]

I too use a radeon with linux, sadly the open source drivers arent up to the standards of nvidias closed ones yet :/
I get about maybe 30% lower framerate under linux thatn win 98

I assume you have direct rendering enabled ? use glxinfo to find out,

Just reread your last post which says direct rendering disabled, are you laoding the radeon kernel module (use lsmd to check )

Also you need to make sure the agp module is being used by the kernel (use dmesg and you should see something about agp)

A good checklist is here:



http://gatos.sourceforge.net/dri-debug.php

[Ashcrow]

[ash@gnulinux ash]$ /sbin/lsmod 
Module         Size Used by
agpgart        26144  0 (unused)
sr_mod         14936  0 (autoclean)
emu10k1        51268  0 (autoclean)
soundcore        4196  4 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
binfmt_misc       6052  1
radeon         94008  0
tulip         37696  2
ipchains        36424  1
ide-scsi        7904  0
scsi_mod        94648  2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd         26560  0
cdrom         29568  0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
usb-ohci        18144  0 (unused)
usbcore        49920  1 [usb-ohci]
ext3          59808  2
jbd          39076  2 [ext3]

[ash@gnulinux ash]$ glxinfo 
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
  GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
  GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
  GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2
OpenGL extensions:
  GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, 
  GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
  GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

  visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
 id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x26 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None

I upgraded to XFree86-4.2.0 to see if it was a quick fix and nothing happened. Same slow problem.

I tried using the actual x modules from the dri sourceforge site and they just cause the X server to crash complaining about not having a specific obj in radeon_drv.o or radeon.o.

I seem to always run int oDRI problem :-(.