Ati driver problems

[eekie]

Re: Ati driver problems

Hallo Podunk,
Your right about the poor functionallity of the Ati Linux software, but in fact it is even worse. I have tried everything I could to get reasonable functionallity in Suse 10.1, Kubuntu dapper and even Kubuntu edgy, but no succes.
If I use the generic drivers from linux (which is the default situation) then at least the video applications work properly with warnings ( no Xv available for your videocard) but GoogleEarth won't work.
If I install the ati driver from the ati website using all the tricks brought forward in this topic I get the Ati driver installed all right in three of the for linux grades, but video programs all crash and on top of that GoogleEarth is still not working!
I can start up on two different dapper kernels:
kernel 2.6.15-26-amd64-k8
kernel 2.6.15-27-amd64-k8
Version 27 lets you install the Ati package 8.30.3. Version 26 really turned me mad, because neither Ati package 8.30.3 nor 8.29.6 installed Xv overlay (Xvinfo: no adaptor present).
Anyway it seems to me Ati never tested its software on amd64 machines!
Suse 10.1, version 27 and edgy all give the following Xvinfo and fglrxinfo:

johan@racekubuntu:~$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
Adaptor #0: "ATI Radeon AVIVO Video"
number of ports: 4
port base: 115
operations supported: PutImage
supported visuals:
depth 24, visualID 0x23
depth 24, visualID 0x24
depth 24, visualID 0x25
depth 24, visualID 0x26
depth 24, visualID 0x27
depth 24, visualID 0x28
depth 24, visualID 0x29
depth 24, visualID 0x2a
depth 24, visualID 0x2b
depth 24, visualID 0x2c
depth 24, visualID 0x2d
depth 24, visualID 0x2e
depth 24, visualID 0x2f
depth 24, visualID 0x30
depth 24, visualID 0x31
depth 24, visualID 0x32
depth 24, visualID 0x33
depth 24, visualID 0x34
depth 24, visualID 0x35
depth 24, visualID 0x36
depth 24, visualID 0x37
depth 24, visualID 0x38
depth 24, visualID 0x39
depth 24, visualID 0x3a
depth 24, visualID 0x3b
depth 24, visualID 0x3c
depth 24, visualID 0x3d
depth 24, visualID 0x3e
depth 24, visualID 0x3f
depth 24, visualID 0x40
depth 24, visualID 0x41
depth 24, visualID 0x42
depth 24, visualID 0x43
depth 24, visualID 0x44
depth 24, visualID 0x45
depth 24, visualID 0x46
depth 24, visualID 0x47
depth 24, visualID 0x48
depth 24, visualID 0x49
depth 24, visualID 0x4a
depth 24, visualID 0x4b
depth 24, visualID 0x4c
depth 24, visualID 0x4d
depth 24, visualID 0x4e
depth 24, visualID 0x4f
depth 24, visualID 0x50
depth 24, visualID 0x51
depth 24, visualID 0x52
depth 24, visualID 0x53
depth 24, visualID 0x54
depth 24, visualID 0x55
depth 24, visualID 0x56
depth 24, visualID 0x57
depth 24, visualID 0x58
depth 24, visualID 0x59
depth 24, visualID 0x5a
depth 24, visualID 0x5b
depth 24, visualID 0x5c
depth 24, visualID 0x5d
depth 24, visualID 0x5e
depth 24, visualID 0x5f
depth 24, visualID 0x60
depth 24, visualID 0x61
depth 24, visualID 0x62
number of attributes: 13
"XV_SET_DEFAULTS" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
"XV_DOUBLE_BUFFER" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
"XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_CONTRAST" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_SATURATION" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_COLOR" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_HUE" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_RED_INTENSITY" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_GREEN_INTENSITY" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_BLUE_INTENSITY" (range -1000 to 1000)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_BLENDING_MODE" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_CLEAR_BUFFER" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
"XV_OFFSCREEN_RENDER" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
maximum XvImage size: 4096 x 4096
Number of image formats: 3
id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 12
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (planar)
id: 0x30323449 (I420)
guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 12
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (planar)
id: 0x41424752 (RGBA)
guid: 52474241-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 32
number of planes: 1
type: RGB (packed)
depth: 32
red, green, blue masks: 0xff, 0xff, 0xff


johan@racekubuntu:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300 Series Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6119 (8.30.3)

Well that looks pretty sound!

Hopefully a real expert among the members of this forum can save me for linux!
This distribution in particular is so superior to Windows, but I can't afford to replace a 6 month old computer!

[lingenfr]

Re: Ati driver problems

I have everything working (or at least it seems so), but my framerate still sux. I have a PCI with an onboard Intel 865 video. I have it disabled in the bios. However, AGPGART still seems to want to find it and give me problems. dmesg says the following:

[17179587.404000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179587.404000] agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
[17179587.408000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf0000000

and

[17179597.232000] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[17179597.232000] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 929 MBytes.
[17179597.232000] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.28.8 [Aug 17 2006] on minor 0
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] total GART = 134217728
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] free GART = 118226944
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] max single GART = 118226944
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] total LFB = 126873600
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] free LFB = 116387840
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] max single LFB = 116387840
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] total Inv = 0
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] free Inv = 0
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] max single Inv = 0
[17179600.512000] [fglrx] total TIM = 0

lsmod tells me the following:

fglrx 406988 8
agpgart 34888 2 fglrx,intel_agp

I was getting errors about an AGPGART conflict, but after reading the ATI website, I added the command:

Option "BusType" "PCI"

to my xorg.conf, and that error seems to have gone away. OK, so my problem is that I still have a framerate around 250! This is a P4 3Ghz 1GB RAM system and I know that I ought to get 5 to 10 times that. I am about out of ideas. Please don't tell me to search because I have and I have googled for every post I could find. Thanks for any assistance. I tried the ATI rather than fglrx first. But I was having trouble with direct rendering. I want to get this computer set up so my son can play some games, but I don't want to go any further until I can get a decent framerate.