Re: [SLE] 3D & direct rendering

From: BandiPat (penguin0601_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/31/03

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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:08:05 -0400

    On Thursday 31 July 2003 01:21 am, Curtis Rey wrote:
    > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:44 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
    > > * BandiPat (penguin0601@earthlink.net) [030730 21:02]:
    > > >Running glxinfo shows no direct rendering and gears are slow and
    > > > Tux Racer is slow. The 7200 is about the same as the 7000 card,
    > > > so it doesn't fit into the "need an ATI binary driver" to get the
    > > > 3d working. In fact, I believe the standard XFree86 4.3 supports
    > > > 3d for the Radeons up to the 9200, but beyond that you need the
    > > > binary drivers.
    > > >
    > > >Any thoughts anyone? Has someone run across this lately as well?
    > >
    > > Well, I've posted about this weird happening before. It seems that
    > > every 25-35 days of uptime..give or take..my Radeon 7500 just stops
    > > being able to use Direct Rendering. I run 3Ddiag and make sure
    > > everything is kosher but the only thing that fixes it is a reboot.
    > > I've tried everything from removing the modules to running SaX2
    > > ..etc..etc. Nothing works accept a reboot. Then all is peachy for
    > > the next month or so. I've never had an answer that came close to
    > > being correct about this issue. It never cropped up while I was
    > > using my nVidia based Diamond Viper 770 Ultra which has made me
    > > thing that my next card may be an nVidia FX card. If anyone has
    > > thoughts on this ..I to would LOVE to hear them.
    > >
    > > --
    > > Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org
    >
    > Ben, which FX card are you getting. I was thinking about getting a
    > GF4-Ti (4200 or 4600) but it isn't DX9 enabled. I want this for
    > HalfLife2 and Doom3 (though Carmack will most likely port of
    > OSS/Linux - shaders are writing in an assmebly like manner). My
    > problem is that HL2 uses some advance mipmapping, shader, and fog
    > protocals. It should really bump up the bench mark, but it is DX9
    > dependent. Any thoughts?
    >
    > Cheers, Curtis.
    ================

    Ok, guys let's not turn this thread into a what is the best nvidia card
    thing. Curtis usually is complaining about someone hijacking a thread,
    so? Let's try to stick with the subject and problem and get that
    solved first please!

    Ben, since I usually boot fresh each day, dropping out as you describe
    doesn't happen here. Usually with mine, it's a file that has been
    installed that switches it off and resetting things with sax2, etc.
    gets it all going again, but that didn't happen this time, so I am not
    sure at this point what is going on now. I might try to go back to an
    earlier kernel to see if that has changed it, but the modules seem to
    be there for the radeon & ati drivers.

    Pat 

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