On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:49:21 +0800, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 05:20:28 +0200 (CEST), > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > [...] > > > OK. I'm hoping that someone can help me out here. This > > morning I downloaded the new Knoppix CD that came out on > > Friday. I burned it and used it to boot my machine, and to my > > surprise it recognized the nForce2 AGPGART and even > > successfully loaded the DRI drivers. Not only that, but the > > frame rate in glxgears was like 2500 fps, versus 1925 that I > > get with the new closed-source ATI driver. So I set about > > duplicating Knoppix's setup, but nothing worked. > > > > I added this line to sources.list: > > > > deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./ > > I used to download my source from that site, when > Daniel-san. first took it upon himself to create XFree86 4.3 for > the terminally impatient. Now my 4.3 packages come from: > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/ > > I don't know how unofficial that is. But there are near nightly > builds of the debian diff's to the X sources. So somebody must > be maintaining them. To be sure, I take the trouble of compiling > from the source. > > > Which got me the same exact XFree86 that Knoppix uses (I had > > built my own packages from the sources and patches on the > > X-Strike Force page) back on July 22. I also downloaded the > > latest Radeon tarball from dri.sourceforge.net. Nothing I did > > got DRI working with the open source drivers. I also tried the > > xlibmesa4-drm-source package, but that did not help either. > > [...] > > Did you try "lsmod" on both machines? Did you make sure the > binary stuff was totally purged from your system? I ran into > some problem when I replaced my NVidia with the Radeon. The > binary drivers at that time wouldn't surrender without a fight > (something to do with "diversions" IRC). > > Also I get my opensource radeon DRI drivers from a Debian > maintainer's unofficial "site": > > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ > > The first URL is for xfree86 4.2, the other for xfree86 4.3. I > had to eliminate the kernel options that would compile the > kernel's native radeon drivers (which would would be replaced by > dri-trunk's own kernel modules). > > To be sure I'm running Daenzer's unofficial debs on top of the > official sid X 4.2. The debs allow me to play Chromium and > GLTron with decent explosions. Since the Radeon VE doesn't have > TCL (whatever that means) I get worse fps (100 fps) when running > glxgears under DRI than when running it under plain X (200 fps). > I think Chromium is a better test for 3D acceleration because it > allows you to waste your time in a more entertaining manner. ..huh? :-) Any chance these work with these cards: cat /proc/pci |tail -n 7 Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 122). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xeaffffff]. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe9000fff]. ...and: Bus 0, device 15, function 0: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 154). Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0ffffff]. I/O at 0x6600 [0x66ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe1000fff]. ...??? Needed for http://flightgear.org/ ... -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
