video hardware acceleration not on

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I've tried several fixes for the fglrx driver as well as the proprietary ATI drivers and nothing seems to work.
the following are warnings and errors out of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize ASIC in kernel.
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error -1007
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP

(WW) fglrx(0): could not detect X server version (query_status=-3)
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
(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): ********************************************* *

[claydoh]

Re: video hardware acceleration not on

What video card?
What things have you already tried?

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Re: video hardware acceleration not on

video card is an ati radeon 9800 pro.So far I've followed the instructions for installing the fglrx driver from the repositories as well as from the ati web site.As far as trouble shooting goes this is the only page I've found so far - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

[claydoh]

Re: video hardware acceleration not on

please post for me the contents of your xorg.conf file, and also run the command

lspci

and paste any lines relating to ati or radeon. I have done some searching on some of your errors and warnings

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

in particular makes me think somehow your card wasn't properly detected. We can try an edit to help with that

(EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize ASIC in kernel

brings lots of search hits but not necessarily many solutions

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Re: video hardware acceleration not on


from lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800         Pro]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] (        Secondary)

and xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Defaultdepth	24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
 screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
EndSection

[kevinc]

Re: video hardware acceleration not on

Are you using Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) or an earlier version?

I have an ATI x1300 and my wife has an ATI x1600. With older versions of Kubuntu, it needed installing ATI drivers, but with Hardy, everything is detected and runs perfectly without the ATI (glx) driver.

[krazy]

Re: video hardware acceleration not on

as kelvinc says, the older ati cards are well supported with the open source ati/radeon driver now..

try setting the driver to "ati" in xorg.conf and see how it goes:

Driver   "ati"

according to the official wiki, your card (R300 series) is one of the most well supported! see here : http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

[claydoh]

Re: video hardware acceleration not on

From your lspci output, it looks like your system is seeing 2 cards with 2 different PCI id's
you can also try specifying it in your xorg.conf like so

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
	BusID 	   "PCI:1:0:1"    ## <---add this line ##
Driver        "fglrx"
EndSection

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Re: video hardware acceleration not on

I've uninstalled the fglrx driver and went with the open source driver instead,following the instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver.Still no luck with 3d acceleration.
The os is Hardy Herron and as far as lspci detecting 2 video cards,there is only one in the system.It supports dual monitors though so that might be it.

xorg.conf now looks like this

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Radeon 9800 1"
	Driver		"ati"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Radeon 9800 2"
	Driver		"ati"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Radeon 9800 1"
	DefaultDepth	24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

xorg.0.log errors are

(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(WW) RADEON(0): No crtc mode list for crtc 1,continuing with desired mode
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled

these aren't errors bug look interesting anyway.How do I check the first one.

(II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer.