Suse Gaming Problems

[zachtib]

try using the newest ati drivers, just recently, they have actually *gasp* started working. I get anywhere between 1000-2000 fps on glxgears, and this is with a radeon 9000 with only 32 mb of VRAM. 3D games run fine at 800x600 both natively, and through cedega, which was about how well they ran under windows.

[Mytob]

Hi just tryed the new drivers and well big suprize they dont work! This is what i downloaded off the the ati site

ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-i386.run

In still getting about 170.00fps on gears. I have also tryed to run ut from the command line and got the following message

Ian@linux:/usr/local/games/ut2004> sh ut2004
WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change!
Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".
Either GL_EXT_bgra or glDrawRangeElements not supported- bailing out.

History:

Exiting due to error

Does this mean anything to anyone?

[antidrugue]

Have you compiled the kernel module?
Do you have the "DRI" section with permission 0666 in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

Maybe ati drivers are not that good, but as far as my personnal experience goes, I always succeded in making them work.

When you type:

glxinfo

Does it say that "direct rendering" is "on" ?

[inmate]

i have a x300 with the ati drivers installed when i run glxgears it says i get about 4000 frames in 5 secs try typing flxrxinfo and make sure it says ati and not mesa for the driver

[Mytob]

this is what i get with glxinfo

Ian@linux:~> glxinfo
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_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,
GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2b 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2d 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow


as for compiling kernal modules thats getting beyond me i think at the moment!

[antidrugue]

Nope, 3D is not working for you...

direct rendering: No

According to this, it seems pretty straith-forward:
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/ati-installer-HOWTO.html

So Suse 10.0 ?

By doing

./ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-i386.run --help

and this:

fakeroot ./ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-i386.run --get-supported

it tells me that you can build a package for Suse with this:

fakeroot ./ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-i386.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE100-IA32

*************
Before going further, uninstall the ati driver that you have now.
*************

Then you'll get a package like this:
"fglrx_6_8_0_SUSE100-8.19.10-1.i386.rpm"

When installing it:

sudo rpm -Uhv fglrx_6_8_0_SUSE100-8.18.8-1.i386.rpm

...it will build the kernel module as well.

Then you need to configure the driver with SaX2, check out in:
/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/README.SuSE

Then to install the kernel module use the script generated by fglrx_6_8_0_SUSE100-8.18.8-1.i386.rpm:

sudo ./fglrx-kernel-build.sh

Of course, every time you do an update or a security update regarding the kernel, you will need to run again "fglrx-kernel-build.sh".

This is just meant to be of some help, I don't have Suse, so I didn't try it, but it makes perfect sense. (Remember to configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf properly.)