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02-18-2006 #11
Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary part.
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02-18-2006 #12
followed the guide, with no success. i have got agpart compiled in.
this is really beginning to annoy me. it is nothing but a pain.
-weed"Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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02-18-2006 #13
Semi-fixed:
used vesafb-tng instead of radeonfb. still gives "you have passed an undefined mode number" but once i press enter, it works.
i am sure somone/something said somewhere that vesafb should not be enabled if i want X to work properly.
-weed"Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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02-23-2006 #14
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My Solution
Hi, everybody! I run Slackware 10.1 on an Compaq Presario M2105US w/ the ATI Radeon 200M Xpress - and I have direct rendering.
The frame rates for gears I got are about 54-80 fps in KDE and about 64-80 fps in Fluxbox. This was tested with both 64MB and 128MB of shared ram allocated to video, during different boots, of course.
How did I get the direct rendering? Well, I first used the ATI propreitary drivers. and just recently after seeing this post thought I'd try to do the other half of the work. Key changes I can think of in xorg.conf are that both "glx" and "dri" modules are loaded, video driver is set to "fglrx", I uncommented the DRI section towards the end of my config file. Slackware and/or the driver installation would have done any other changes I am not completely aware about, if any.
To check if direct rendering is enabled, type "glxinfo | grep direct" into a terminal (while X is running) and it should tell you yes or no.
Hope this helps!
--luke_z3
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02-23-2006 #15
thats odd. i can get 120-130fps easily with the 8.21 prop. drivers and 32mb of shared ram.
the 8.14 drivers didnt work for me, so i unmasked the 8.21 drivers and i run fluxbox with no probs.
that is with gentoo though. i dont know about any other distro with this graphics chipset.
btw, does anybody know if my fps is just enough to play some 3d games (eg ut)?
thanx
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02-23-2006 #16
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Originally Posted by Weedman
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02-24-2006 #17
ill be quite interested at your results luke_z3.
good luck
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02-28-2006 #18
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Well, as it turns out, I did have the older driver. But even with the new driver, I get practically the same results. Still, it's on my laptop - therefore the performance of a screensaver is not a high priority for me - especially when I spend most of my time using the CLI on it (aafire is a good "screensaver" for that if I really need it). Also, if it's not used, it goes off. For my desktop however...that's where I would show off the screensavers.
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02-28-2006 #19
what a bummer!
i have as of yet to install screensavers as i have to wait for my download limit to be cleared (hopefully tomorrow).
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03-06-2006 #20
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Originally Posted by luke_z3
thanks!
theoryno3