Re: Not optimal display -> DRI activation with ATI Radeon 9000

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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:14:14 -0400
To: Sylvain Vedrenne <sylvain.vedrenne@free.fr>

Selon Sylvain Vedrenne <sylvain.vedrenne@free.fr>:

> On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:57, you wrote:
> > Hi. Thanks for helping me.
> > Here is what I get when I try "cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 | grep -i dri"
> > Load "dri"
> > Driver "keyboard"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Driver "ati"
> > Section "DRI"
> Maybe the content of this section "DRI" would be interesting to look at as
> well.
> > And here is what I get about dri in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> >
> > (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
> > (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> > compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
> > ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
> This seems good.
> > and
> > (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
> > (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
> > (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
> > (II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 866)
> > (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1152 x 7321
> > (**) Option "dpms"
> > (**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
> > (WW) RADEON(0): Option "UseInternalAGPGART" is not used
> Maybe this is not very good, I don't know. For X, it is just a warning...
> > (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
> Seems good.
> >
> > Hummm. I don't know what to look for. Should I follow the instruction at
> > (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html) or
> > it's not relevant to my problem?
> This site you indicated seems very good, that's all I can say.
>
> Do you know Armagetron? Does it work nice in your config?
> And the screen saver you've been talking about, maybe its buggy? Do other
> screen savers using GL work nice?
> Good luck whatever you try now. I don't think I can help you out. I hope
> you'll find your way.
>
> Cheers,
> Sylvain.
>
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Hi. Thank you for the help. Just like that, here is the DRI section missing from
my previous message.

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

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