Need help getting DRI to work with ATI Card

[ganooch]

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You are absolutely right and using fglrxconfig was a desperate attempt to get this working. I have replaced my xorg.conf file with the one from the first link that you provided and everything still works. Still no DRI though. flg_glxgears still does not run. The output is:

bash-3.1$ fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 131 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 32
Current serial number in output stream: 32
bash-3.1$

I am out of ideas here. I am still officially open to suggestions regardless of what they are. I can always restore the original files. Thanks in advance.

PS: Below is my new xorg.conf

bash-3.1$ cat xorg.conf
#le is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
#   cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
#   md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >/var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum
#   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
        FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts, need packages msttcorefonts & x-ttcidfont-conf
        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "dbe"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "evdev"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "record"
        Load    "type1"
        Load    "vbe"
        # These modules are required for 3D acceleration
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "dri"
        # Load "extmod" but omit DGA extension
        # (the DGA extension is broken in the fglrx driver)
        SubSection "extmod"
                Option "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "rapidaccess2"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "Resolution"            "800"
        Option          "Buttons"               "10"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "ButtonMapping"         "1 2 3 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 AS [Radeon 9600 AS]"
        Driver          "fglrx"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option          "RenderAccel"           "true"
        # If X refuses to use the screen resolution you asked for,
        # uncomment this; see "Bugs and Workarounds" for details.
                #Option "NoDDC"
        # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
                Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
        # === OpenGL Overlay ===
        # Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
        #       will be disabled automatically
                Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        # === Use internal AGP GART support? ===
        # If OpenGL acceleration doesn't work, try using "yes" here
        # and disable the kernel agpgart driver.
                Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS"
        HorizSync       30-69
        VertRefresh     50-120
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 AS [Radeon 9600 AS]"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection
bash-3.1$

[Aluzion]

After many hours of failure and not being able to find the problem on other forums I thought I would seek out help here to get hardware acceleration enabled on my ATI 9600 using to proprietary ATI driver.

uname -r

2.6.18-1.2849.fc6

glxinfo | grep direct

Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

rpm -qa | grep fglrx

kmod-fglrx-8.31.5-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.31.5-3.lvn6

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE \
> && cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(1): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization disabled! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************
(WW) fglrx(1): ***********************************
(WW) fglrx(1): * DRI initialization disabled! *
(WW) fglrx(1): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(1): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(1): ***********************************
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Multihead layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
        Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "Xinerama" "on"
        Option      "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
#        FontPath        "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "NEC 90GX2"
#       HorizSync    31.5 - 67.0
#       VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "NEC 90GX2"
#       HorizSync    31.5 - 67.0
#       VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Screen      0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard1"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600]"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
        Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Videocard1"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "False"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "False"
EndSection

Please note that I'm running dual-monitors.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

[ganooch]

Well, I finally got DRI enabled. I found that there is a newer version of the ATI driver available on the ATI site. I had an older one. Now glxinfo shows Direct rendering: Yes.

Here is the problem. glxgears only gives me ~250fps. I would like to use xgl, so glxgears needs to be 700 - 1000fps. I have an ATI Radeon Mobility X600 card in my laptop. Is this 250fps a limitation of the card, or is there something else that I need to do to achieve 3D acceleration?

Thanks in advance for any help!


--ganooch

[Sanitarium]

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting
helped me get 600-700 fps in glxgears with intel graphics on my laptop hope it helps you