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

From: scsijon (scsijon_at_net2000.com.au)
Date: 02/12/04

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    This was dealt with a few months ago, please check the archives.

    Not a flame it's just easier to follow the flow this way.

    Mainly it depends on your Card's brand.

    regards
    scsijon

    At 03:04 AM 11/02/2004, Carlos Sia wrote:
    >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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