ATI Radeon X700 and player/stage

[shaggyman87]

Hey. I just recently install Etch onto my laptop and am using gnome as a windows manager. I also install player/stage because I wanted to do some robotics work. Aparently this version of can show you a 3D view of a 2D map. It's actually really cool, but it lags up my computer.

I'm not sure if the lag is because the laptop can't handle the program or its because of my video card. The only thing I've done so far is installed the fglrx package via aptitude and configured xorg.conf with it.

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
VideoRam 128000
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-90
VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

It kind of worked because I can use the fglrx driver instead of vesa. But when I do fglrxinfo I get

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: Mesa Home Page
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)

I feel as though it shouldn't be using mesa. It should say something about ati or radeon. Also when I try to fun fgl_glxgears I get

Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Segmentation fault

Has only else gone through this and able to get fglrx/ati/radeon to work? My plan was to try and make sure the video card was working properly and see if that makes stage run smoother.

Also is there a way to figure out why my computer is lagging. Can I see how much the video card is processing vs. my cpu.

[iwanabeguru]

i guess you experience lagging when you try run a 3d application or watch a video. This happens because you haven't 3d accleration.

So if you use the original kernel you simply can install the fglrx driver from package.

aptitude install fglrx-driver fglrx-control fglrx-kernel-src

aptitude install module-assisstant

m-a prepare  #m-a is the short name of module-assistant
m-a update
m-a a-i fglrx
depmod -a

modprobe fglrx

use aticonfig to configure your xserver
aticonfig --help

after configuration of X 

/etc/init.d/{kdm|gdm|xdm} restart  #need only one which  are you using

then you can run fgl_glxgears to checking the driver

2.
top is show the actually running processes and its cpu usage

[shaggyman87]

That did it. What exactly is module-assistant doing. Could the process be done by hand?

My fglrxinfo now looks like:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X700 Generic
OpenGL version string:

fgl_glxgears runs beautifully.

I tried running 3ddesk before and I coudln't because it said I didn't have 3d rendering, but now 3ddesk works fine.

Also running stage doesn't cause my computer to lag up anymore.

Thanks a lot for your help.