Re: the latest ati radeon driver

Darren Salt wrote:

I demand that heavytull may or may not have written...

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:33:45 +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that heavytull may or may not have written...
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:32:24 +0000, Shadow_7 wrote:
and "glxinfo" says???
$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
[snip]
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI
MOBILITY RADEON X300 OpenGL version string: 2.1.7276 Release
You're needlessly tainting your kernel...
What do you mean? i'm using one of the official slack12.0 kernel config
and since it works well i never touched it.
u mean the ATI proprietary's driver taints the kernel?

The kernel module does, yes. X and kernel developers will normally ignore bug
reports involving the use of proprietary components.

[snip; "no XVideo"]
The best thing that you can do is to remove ATI's taintware and
libraries in favour of xf86-video-ati and mesa.

I actually blacklisted ATI's dirt and and restored the original xorg.conf;

$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
[snip]
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.2

Much better. :-)

[snip]
0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
Segmentation fault

Hmm? Some ATI-provided libraries lying around, perhaps? (I've not seen
glxinfo segfault before...)


yeas, i completely uninstalled the proprietary drivers and now there is no more
that segfault.

by the way is that normal the the open source driver doesn't provide direct
rendering?

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon has more info. (In the "All
Radeons" section, it says "... are not well supported for 3D" for R3xx and
R4xx cards; it should, I think, say "are not as well supported for 3D" since
support is good enough for many games but you may need to use driconf to
enable the "disable low-impact fallbacks" option.)


--
heavytull
slackware 12.0
2.6.21.5-smp
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: the latest ati radeon driver
    ... MOBILITY RADEON X300 OpenGL version string: ... u mean the ATI proprietary's driver taints the kernel? ... OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • Fwd: tuxview mit ATI Radeon9600 - Framebuffer-Problem
    ... OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Generic ... setting dev to /dev/video0 ...
    (Debian-User)
  • [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick
    ... Proposed patch to prohibit loading modules that use early C string ... When this is interpreted back again in the kernel module loader, ... having wrongfully access to GPL symbols. ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Cant add a usb Cannon i960 printer
    ... the printer gets defined with a device string like the ... it is hardly interesting to repeat it unless the usblp kernel driver ... >and then the kernel discovers its devcies as it enumerates and probes buses. ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
  • OpenGL problem, need HEEELP!
    ... server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation ... OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation ...
    (freebsd-questions)