[SLE] 3D Acceleration for Radeon 9200 in SUSE 9.0 Professional

From: Carlos Sia (blue_blood_at_tri-isys.com)
Date: 02/10/04

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:04:57 +0800

    Hi all!

    I am wondering how to get 3D support for my Radeon 9200. This has been a
    source of endless frustration for me. I once had to repartition and
    reinstall SUSE 9.0 because of the following symptoms I got after
    changing ANY setting in SaX: there would be no monitor output (no
    picture on my monitor, but Linux is running - you can tell because of
    the HDD activity light) when the system reaches runlevel 5 (full GUI, X
    server started). The system would boot to failsafe/console only but
    would give the same symptom when the command startx was executed. This
    seems to be the problem with Mandrake 9.1, which I have tried on my
    machine a few months ago - the installation runs fine, but when the X
    server is started, the monitor output goes bye-bye. It put me off Linux
    for a while - we had thought it a graphics card/monitor issue. I was
    pleasantly surprised when SUSE detected my hardware, but was
    disappointed to find that I had no 3D and was on 16-bit colour (the
    default settings which I am still using now).

    I have installed the fglrx driver rpm, and SaX ticked the checkbox
    marked "3D support", but executing the command glxinfo | head gives the
    following results:

    -

    Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
    name of display: :0.0
    display: :0 screen: 0
    direct rendering: No
    server glx vendor string: SGI
    server glx version string: 1.2
    server glx extensions:
        GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
    client glx vendor string: SGI
    client glx version string: 1.2
    client glx extensions:

    -

    Obviously, 3D has not been enabled. Also, the ATi control panel
    (fireglcontrol) does not operate completely; it says the X11 extensions
    are missing.

    For your reference, my graphics hardware setup is:
    - Sapphire Technologies Atlantis ATI Radeon 9200 (128MB DDR frame
    buffer, AGP 8x, VGA/TV-out/DVI)
    - Samsung SyncMaster 152T TFT-LCD connected via DVI

    SUSE detected this as:
    - RV280 5961 (fglrx)
    - Samsung SyncMaster 4S
    - 3D acceleration enabled

    Is there a way to get 3D support for my hardware? How do I get my
    Syncmaster 152T identified correctly? Am I better off buying an NVidia
    GeForce FX 5700 instead?

    Please help because, among other things, I can't play 3D games and the
    desktop lags when dragging windows around. :(

    Cheers,

    Carl 

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