On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:38:05 +0000, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >>> Correct me, if I am wrong, but the question is how to enable hardware >>> 3D support in 'radeon' video driver, which is in use by my Radeon >>> Mobility 7500? Or, if it is impossible, how to change video driver, >>> which will support hardware 3D and will works with compiz? >> >> 3D should be enabled by default when using radeon driver, I wouldn't >> bother about that (you can check it with "glxinfo | grep -i render"). > > It is not enabled by default, that a problem is. > > $ glxinfo | grep -i render > direct rendering: Yes > OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer By reading this: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/glxinfo It seems to enable software rendering, yes. > It is because needed module for hardware acceleration does not loaded: > > [ 7.667868] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R100_cp.bin > [ 7.691511] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R100_cp.bin" > [ 7.691602] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failled initializing CP (-2). > [ 7.691643] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration Oh, I see ;-( Then you should first fix that "missing firmware" issue to get full 3D hardware acceleration: Installing proprietary firmware http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo > From that strange fact we have this situation: > > $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo > name of display: :0.0 > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so libGL: > OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: Yes > > As here we may see, it is software rasterisation enabled instead of > hardware. Yes. >>> Please, help to bring compiz to live in Debian Squeeze. >> >> You have to follow the same steps. If "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" is not >> there, just create it and add the required sections. > > Correct me, if I am wrong, but I think it is useless until hardware > rendering will be available and turned on. Yes, or at leas that was also my understanding. Greetings -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.18.18.00...@gmail.com
