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    FGLRX Graphics Driver Loses Hardware Acceleration Over Time

    Hello everyone,

    A while back I was getting frustrated with the ati graphics driver in Kubuntu, and Rog131 told me to try the closed-source fglrx graphics driver instead. It solved my problems with screen refreshing and font rendering, until . . . the next day, when all my 3D games started running very jerkily, and my OpenGL screensaver did too. I returned to the ati driver, but it's problems with Blender bugged me too much, so I reinstalled fglrx. This time it worked for four days, before losing acceleration again today. It's not so hard to install and uninstall fglrx, using Envy, but it seems rather silly, so I'd like to find a permanent fix.

    Some info:
    Code:
    mark@kellerboys:~$ fglrxinfo
    display: :0.0 screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: [url]www.mesa3d.org[/url]
    OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
    OpenGL version string: 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2)
    Errors:
    Code:
    mark@kellerboys:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)"
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
    (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
    (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    (EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize UMM driver.
    (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    Warnings:
    Code:
    mark@kellerboys:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)"
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
    (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
    (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
    (WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled
    (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
    (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!         *
    (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
    (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)       *
    (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available        *
    (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
    And yes, I can see the errors up there, I just don't know how to fix them.

    Another interesting, and possibly useful, tidbit is that I compiled Cinelerra while I had fglrx installed, and it said that it couldn't find the OpenGL libraries - and this was while hardware acceleration was still working. After I uninstalled fglrx, ./configure found OpenGL quite nicely . . .

    Any ideas?

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    Re: FGLRX Graphics Driver Loses Hardware Acceleration Over Time

    It could be this:

    After sertain upgrades (kernel and others) you need to reinstall graphic drivers.

    If you are using repository version of fglrx, you will (should) get updated drivers automatically. If you are using third party installers (Envy), you need to install drivers yourself.


    Errors:
    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom
    Probably this X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=7964.0

    (EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize UMM driver.
    I had this this error with Gutsy (there are daily upgrades). Reinstalling fglrx fixed that.

    (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
    AMD/Ati driver are not (yet) AIGLX capable.
    Add to the xorg.conf
    Code:
    Option "AIGLX"  "false"
    More at
    FAQ: Links - How to Install AMD(Ati) Proprietary Linux Display Driver (fglrx)
    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085652.0
    =>
    Aftermath
    =>
    Topic: how do u install ATI drivers?
    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3084084.0


    Another interesting, and possibly useful, tidbit is that I compiled Cinelerra while I had fglrx installed, and it said that it couldn't find the OpenGL libraries - and this was while hardware acceleration was still working. After I uninstalled fglrx, ./configure found OpenGL quite nicely . . .
    fglrx drivers shouldn't do that. Check that you have all OpenGl libraries installed.

    What was the exact error message ?
    Before you edit, BACKUP !

    Why there are dead links ?
    1. Thread: Please explain how to access old kubuntu forum posts
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